Raipur: A pastor and two others were manhandled and abused inside a Chhattisgarh police station by a mob Sunday. The pastor and his associates were accused of indulging in religious conversion. A day after the incident happened, two people were arrested Monday, a police official said.
Pastor Harish Sahu, Ankush Bariyekar, general secretary of the Chhattisgarh Christian Forum, and one Prakash Masih were manhandled and abused in Purani Basti police station Sunday. The arrested person have been identified as Sanjay Singh and Manish Sahu.
Sahu, Bariyekar and Masih had been summoned to the police station Sunday after being accused by alleged right-wing activists of indulging in religious conversion, the official said.
“Several others wanted in the case filed on the complaint of Bariyekar are on the run and efforts are on to nab them. They have been charged under IPC sections 147 (rioting), 294 (obscene acts and songs), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt) and 506 (criminal intimidation),” the official informed.
After a video of the incident went viral, the station house officer of Purani Basti police station was attached to police lines Sunday.