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Premises of pastor Harpreet Deol and rape & murder accused ‘Yeshu Yeshu’ pastor Bajinder Singh raided by IT: Punjab

The premises of pastors Harpreet Deol and Bajinder Singh were raided by the Income Tax (IT) department. Deol, who resides in Kapurthala, oversees Khojewala village’s Open Door Church while Singh, who is a resident of Jalandhar, runs the ‘Church of Glory’ and ‘Wisdom’ in Jalandhar’s Tajpur village.

Simultaneous raids were conducted by different teams of 50 IT officers in Jalandhar, Kapurthala, Amritsar, New Chandigarh, Mohali, Kurali, and other locations belonging to the Pastors. Property documents, bank accounts, and other important project documents were seized in the raids.

Documents, computers, and registers containing details about the online bookings for attending Christian congregations were seized by the IT officers. The officers highlighted that the two were running churches under the garb of healing ministries. These are self-styled congregations accepting foreign funding but are registered as autonomous religious entities or as societies led by a pastor.

Singh’s Tajpur church claims to have lakhs of members in its 15 branches, out of which eight are in Punjab and seven located outside Punjab in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Dubai, Bihar, Mumbai, and Kolkata. Pastor Singh, who hails from a Haryana Jat family, shot to fame after his ‘Yeshu Yeshu‘ song claiming a ‘miracle cure’ went viral.

Activist Anshul Saxena became the target of the Christian conversion mafia after he flagged the issue of a minor being used by Singh for conversion propaganda. In his statement, Saxena has given a timeline of the entire sequence of events including a counter FIR being filed against the activist on the minor’s behalf probably at Pastor Singh’s insistence. Even child rights body NCPCR stepped in to demand action against ‘Mera Yeshu Yeshu’ video Pastor Bajinder Singh for using a child in his conversion propaganda video.

In the video released by the missionary, the mother insists that they were under no pressure to release the video statement and reiterates the claim that her daughter was ‘cured’ by Pastor Singh. The said video shows the minor boy, his sister & mother where the mother asks her daughter to repeat some words after she and the latter obliges. The mother also claims that pastor Bajinder Singh performed a miracle & her daughter started to speak. She demanded strict action against Saxena for ‘insulting’ her & Pastor Bajinder Singh.

In 2018, Pastor Singh was accused of rape by a Zirakpur woman who used to run a Dhaba and became a part of Singh’s group of volunteers after coming in touch with him in 2017. The pastor was arrested at Delhi airport even as he was trying to escape to England. A case was also registered against him for looting a family of Rs. 80000 claiming he would ‘cure’ their daughter Nandini suffering from cancer for several years.

The extent of rampant Christian conversion activities in Punjab is also highlighted by the fact that Singh converted to Christianity in jail while serving a term for murder. “During his stay in jail, he came in contact with a pastor and got inclined towards Christianity. He used to read Bible daily and got converted”, Hindustan Times quotes police officials privy to the investigations as saying. 

Former Congress CM Channi and actor Sonu Sood were to be chief guests at his function but the Congress leader later backed out. In May last year, the controversial Pastor absconded after multiple complaints were filed by the SC-ST Forum and Odisha Hindu organizations. They wanted the National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST) to register an FIR against the Balangir Sub-collector for aiding a massive conversion event organized by Singh targeting innocent tribals of indigenous faith.

Pastor Harpreet Deol hails from a Jatt Sikh household. His Open Door Church too is said to have numerous branches which are established on huge campuses. Both Singh and Deol belong to the Pentecostal sect of Christianity and are involved in ‘miraculous healing’. Their followers mainly come from the Scheduled Caste (SC) community and the poorer sections of society. They have leveraged social media to increase their reach both within Bharat and overseas.

HinduPost had earlier highlighted 10 per cent of Punjab was Christian indicating that the population of Christians has increased at least 10 times and Punjab was the next target for rapid Christianization after Andhra Pradesh.

The article also pointed out “Apostle” Ankur Narula’s activities and how his follower count doubled every year by his own admission. He is only one of the many such “apostles” and “pastors” in Punjab who have spread like cancer in Punjab. All of them have Hindu-Sikh names like Kanchan Mittal, Bajinder Singh and Raman Hans. They convert thousands of people every week!

These pastors and evangelists receive huge amounts of foreign aid and are often known to indulge in FCRA (Foreign Contribution Regulation Act) violations.

(Featured Image Source: OpIndia)

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