Christians run racket to convert Dalit Hindus by giving them financial inducements
Amethi, Uttar Pradesh, India 
9 December, 2024
Case Summary
Amethi Police exposed a Christian conversion racket in the Agresar village and arrested three people. The accused identified as Ramlal Kori, Sandeep Kori, and Omprakash organised a Bible reading session wherein they promised financial and other incentives to the people belonging to the Dalit Hindu community to lure them into converting to Christianity. According to the FIR registered at the Ramganj Police Station based on a Hindu man named Govind’s complaint, Om Prakash, Ramlal Kori and Sandeep Kori used to visit the Agresar village and lure Hindu Dalits to convert to Christianity by offering them money and other benefits. The FIR was filed against them under the provisions of the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Act. Following this, the police arrested the three accused and questioned them.
Why it is Hate Crime ?
This case is being added to the primary category 'Predatory Proselytisation'. Under the primary category, the sub-category being selected is 'Conversion/Attempts to convert by inducement'. Predatory Proselytisation is not just limited to threat, harassment, force and violence, but it also has contours of stealth. In several cases, the Hindu victim is exploited to convert, with non-Hindus taking advantage of their poverty. In such cases, the Hindu victim who is suffering financially is offered monetary benefits, including lucrative offers for jobs, health treatment, education, etc, to induce the victim into changing his/her religion. In such cases, the religious identity of the victim and the aim to disenfranchise him from his faith form the heart of the crime. Also, taking advantage of and exploiting an individual’s economic vulnerabilities is widely acknowledged as exploitation, forms of which are often penalised by law. Such cases therefore are considered religiously motivated hate crimes since the victim’s religious identity forms the very heart of the crime itself. In this case, the Christian missionaries were offering inducements like money and other inducements to convert the disadvantaged and poor Dalit Hindus to Christianity. Conversion by inducement is one of the manipulative methods of disenfranchising Hindus of their faith. This method solely focuses on exploiting the vulnerabilities of the victims and offers inducements like money, miracle cures, to convert them to Christianity and alienate them for their professed faith. The method is predatory and exploitative since it uses the vulnerabilities of people of manipulate them into abandoning their faith - not out of real change of heart/faith. Such proselytisation is driven by hostility towards the native faith, thinking of it as inferior, and therefore, it is documented as a religiously motivated hate crime which infringes on the freedom of religion and personal liberty of the victims.
Case Status
Arrested
Perpetrators Details
Perpetrators
Christian Extremists
Perpetrators Range
From 2 To 5
Perpetrators Gender
male
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