Mizoram Home Minister R Lalzirliana has
written to his Madhya Pradesh counterpart Babulal Gaur asking the latter to
personally intervene for the five Christian missionaries from Mizoram who were
released on bail Tuesday evening after being kept in judicial custody at
Khargone for four days and nights for allegedly offering money to Hindus to
convert.
In his letter, R Lalzirliana asked the five
men be “acquitted and released” as they still face cases against them and that
“appropriate corrective action” be served against “the person who lodged the
false report for justice’s sake”.
“I have been informed that these
missionaries were arrested subsequent to an FIR, lodged by one local resident,
accusing [them] of practicing proselytism by offering a sum of Rs 1 lakh to
Hindus in an attempt to convert them to Christianity,” the Mizoram Home
Minister wrote.
“I was shocked with disbelief on hearing
the allegation as I would confidently vouch that the complaints are false and
baseless. Christians…are never taught to resort to using any form of material
or financial incentives in their mission works and I assure you that
missionaries would not use such form of enticement or allure even in the
future,” he added.
The five men and the families of two of
them have been moved from Sanawad, near where they were arrested, to a
Christian compound at Kanapur.
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