A priest was detained on Wednesday for apparently enticing individuals in Meerut with economic motivations to transform to Christianity, authorities claimed.
Ravi Kumar Azad pen names Ravi Pastor, the primary charged in the Meerut spiritual conversion instance, had actually gotten on the run given that the instance was signed up in August 2024, authorities claimed.
Earlier, 5 charged were detained in case and sent out to prison.
According to an area authorities agent, Azad, a citizen of Jatav Nagar in the Qutubsher police headquarters location of Saharanpur, was detained in the early morning.
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An unique group led by Inspector Anil Kumar Singh and Yogesh Chand from the Meerut Crime Branch, with help from the ATS Meerut, acted upon a secret information and detained Azad near the Bhaura Mandir station in the Paith Bazaar location of Saharanpur, the agent claimed.
The instance was signed up on August 12, 2024, on an issue by Manoj Tyagi, declaring that Azad and his partners were pushing people from the Scheduled Caste area and individuals from various other social histories to transform to Christianity.
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He asserted that the charged enticed them with economic help and developed emotional stress to approve the religious beliefs.
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Based on the issue, an instance was signed up at Kankerkhera police headquarters below under the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Religious Conversion Act, 2021, versus Azad and 6 others, the authorities claimed.
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The examination right into the instance was being performed by theMeerut Crime Branch Five of the charged have actually currently been sent out to prison. Azad, the prime charged, had actually gotten on the run given that the case, the authorities claimed.
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“Police had been making continuous efforts to trace him, leading to his arrest,”
