Hindus lured into conversion with promises of financial assistance and miracle cures

Case ID : 595496b | Location : Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh, India | Date of Incident : Sun, 17 November, 2024
Case ID : 595496b
location Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh, India
date 17 November, 2024
Hindus lured into conversion with promises of financial assistance and miracle cures
Predatory Proselytisation
Conversion/ attempts to convert by inducement

Case Summary

Eight individuals, including four women, were arrested for engaging in religious conversion activities by promising miraculous healings. The incident took place in the Sadar Ganj Paschimi locality of Madiyahu, where the accused were reportedly persuading economically disadvantaged families to convert to Christianity by claiming to cure illnesses through miracles. Acting on a complaint from Bajrang Dal activists, the police conducted a raid at the residence of Vinod Shilpkar. During the operation, they apprehended Sandeep Singh, along with seven others, from the Nuaan (Chhilehiya) area of Chunar. The authorities seized Christian religious literature, medicines, and cross symbols from the scene. The accused were targeting impoverished Dalit families, enticing them with promises of healing and other inducements to convert to Christianity. The police have detained all eight individuals

Why it is Hate Crime ?

This case has been added to the primary category "Predatory Proselytisation' under the sub-category '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 extremists were offering money and miracle cures to vulnerable Hindus in an attempt to disenfranchise them from their professed faith and convert them to Christianity. Luring Hindus to convert to a different faith by offering money and inducements such as miracle cures for ailments is predatory in nature since the extremists manipulate the specific vulnerabilities of disadvantaged and poor Hindus to manipulate them into conversion. This stems from inherent hostility towards the victim's professed faith since Abrahamic faiths believe that any non-adherent to the faith is a subject to be dehumanised till they convert. Since such predatory actions stem from doctrinal animosity towards the Hindu faith and its adherents, this case is being documented as a religiously motivated hate crime.

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Arrested

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Perpetrators Details

Perpetrators


Christian Extremists

Perpetrators Range


From 5 to 10

Perpetrators Gender


both

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