VARANASI: Three men were arrested on Monday in Azamgarh, UP, for allegedly trying to convert a family to
Christianity
. Villagers caught the trio when they were trying to flee and handed them over to police.
Azamgarh SP Sudhir Kumar Singh
told TOI on Tuesday, “Didarganj police arrested three men, namely Balchand Jaiswar of
Jaunpur
, Gopal Prajapati of Varanasi and
Niraj Kumar
of Azamgarh, after they had a brawl with the
complainant Ashok Kumar Yadav
who refused their offer to embrace Christianity.”
In his complaint, Ashok Kumar Yadav of Kaitholi village under Didarganj police station alleged that the three men had arrived at the residence of his
neighbour Tribhuvan Yadav
and gave him lucrative offers for converting to Christianity.
Ashok added that when he went to Tribhuvan’s house to see what was going on, the three men asked him also to take part in their prayer and convert to their religion. Yadav alleged that when he refused to take part in prayer and embrace Christianity, they started threatening him using abusive words leading to a brawl.