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2) Pastor in Chhattisgarh beaten during church service
On July 1, 2007 in Rouabandha, Bilainagar, Durg District of Chhattisgarh, about 60 to 70 Bajrang Dal activists attacked Pastor Israel during a church service. Around 11am, the activists interrupted the worship service of Living Grace Ministries church. Besides beating the pastor, they destroyed musical instruments which cost approximately Rs. 15,000 and stole Bibles which they later burnt at the central market in Rouabandha. Also, Mr. Ravi Kumar, a believer who tried to protect the pastor, was seriously injured, with broken teeth and facial injuries.
Pastor Israel received many threatening calls from Hindutva activists during the past two months. Also, on 5 May 2007, the same group of people beat and harassed one of the families who attend the church.
The attackers fabricated a story of fraudulent conversions after an unknown person complained that Pastor Israel had offered Rs. 10,000 to convert to Christianity. They activists used this report as a reason for their attack.
Pastor Israel and his family have been serving in the town for the last 12 years.
The Chhattisgarh Christian Forum contacted the police who said an FIR has not been filed by either party. Police said they are investigating the incident and will protect the Christian community.
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3) Two sisters gang-raped in Andhra Pradesh
Four unknown people forcibly took and gang-raped two minor girls belonging to the same family and killed one of them at Gopalakrishnapuram village in Udumulapadu panchayat of Srikalahasti mandal, Chittoor district, Andhra Pradesh on 29 July 2007.
The brutal incident brought in a sense of fear among the Dalits in the village. While one of them (13) was killed on the spot, the other (16) has been admitted in a hospital with severe internal and external injuries.
According to Srikalahasti rural police, Veeriah and Samakka, residents of Gopalakrishanpuram dalitwada, are daily labourers. Their daughters, Bharathi (16) and Uha (13) study in a private college in Srikalahasti and Akkurthy High School respectively.
They were living in a government sanctioned house. While Uha and Bharathi were studying inside the house, Veeraiah and Sammakka with their youngest daughter Neeraja slept outside on the verandha of the house.
There were no doors to the house as the construction work was still incomplete. The culprits entered the house, gagged Uha and Bharathi, took them about 200 meters away and raped them. When Uha died in the process, the culprits left her there and took Bharathi about 1 km away. They brutally raped her, leaving her unconscious. Thinking that she was also dead, the culprits fled.
The police are investigating the case. Senior police officials, including DSP, SP and CI have visited the place. They have shifted Bharathi to a hospital in Srikalahasti. And Uha has been sent to government hospital for post mortem
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4) Gujarat CM to reactivate anti-conversion law
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Gandhinagar: Months ahead of the Assembly elections and a day after Gujarat Governor Nawal Kishore Sharma returned a Bill to amend the Freedom of Religion Act, the Narendra Modi Government has decided to reactivate the dormant anti-conversion law enacted by the Assembly in 2003. The decision was taken at a Cabinet meeting on 1 August 2007.
A statement issued by Ministers IK Jadeja and Saurabh Patel, the Government spokespersons, stated that the administration was of the view that without affecting freedom of religion as enshrined in the Constitution, it was necessary to stop all religious conversions through inducements or threats in larger national interest.
The statement added: "The Modi Government believes that the State has been specifically targeted by some foreign powers for religious conversions, as they convert the innocent and the poor using inducements and threats. Strong nationalistic political will is needed to counter such forces, but unfortunately the opposition Congress does not believe in preserving national identity. The Cabinet lauds the decision to bring in the original anti-conversion law of this Government, terming it in national and societal interest."
Responding to the Governor's decision to return the amendment Bill, the Government said it was brought with the intention of preventing divisions within those religions which have their origin in the country. "The issues raised by the Governor would be studied exhaustively, and the Government would determine its next step in due time following constitutional guidance from experts," the note stated.
The anti-conversion law was enacted in 2003 by the Modi Government immediately after it came to power, but it failed to implement it as proper rules and procedures were not stipulated. "We were only waiting for some clarifications, of which the amendment Bill was a part. Now we will go ahead," sai
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