Narayanpur police on Tuesday arrested 5 humans, which includes a nearby BJP chief, in reference to the Monday’s assault on a church interior a faculty premises and attack on police personnel. In all, police have registered 3 FIRs towards unidentified people for rioting, assaulting police personnel, and vandalising the church. Narayanpur SP Sadanand Kumar had suffered a head damage withinside the assault at the church on Monday.
Those arrested had been diagnosed as BJP chief Rupsai Salam, 55, Pawankumar Nag, 24, Atul Netam, 24, Ankit Nandi, 31, and Domendra Yadav, 21. Except for Salam, who’s from Remawand in Narayanpur, the relaxation are citizens of Bakhrupara. Citing protection reasons, the police on Tuesday additionally stopped BJP MPs and an MLA from coming into Narayanpur.
On Monday afternoon, after protecting a assembly to talk about spiritual conversions in Narayanpur, that’s round 242 km from Raipur, a mob of tribal humans barged into Viswadeepti School premises and vandalised a church. A police crew of 6-7 police personnel, which includes the SP, at the same time as seeking to forestall them suffered minor injuries.
The FIRs had been registered beneathneath extraordinary sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) for crook conspiracy, try to homicide on a central authority servant, attack on authorities servants, rioting, illegal assembly, selling enmity among extraordinary agencies on grounds of religion, crook intimidation, planned and malicious acts supposed to outrage spiritual emotions of any class.
Earlier withinside the day, unruly scenes had been witnessed withinside the nation Assembly as BJP legislators accused the authorities of turning a blind eye to the spiritual conversions withinside the nation. They additionally took exception to celebration functionaries being held accountable for the Narayanpur violence. As the Opposition individuals resorted to sloganeering withinside the properly of the House and didn’t relent regardless of repeated requests, they had been suspended for a short period.
The BJP individuals additionally submitted a illustration withinside the Assembly over spiritual conversions in tribal areas. “Poor and gullible tribals are being tempted with money, provider and schooling and being transformed beneathneath the safety of authorities. This is a conspiracy through the authorities and those of Bastar vicinity and Surguja are up in arms. The tribals who’re protesting those conversions had been crushed up through Christian missionaries and police took no action. If the police had acted in time this incident [Narayanpur] might now no longer have occurred,” study the illustration.