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FIR against Christian missionaries running children’s hostel, NCPCR chief suspects local officials complicit in illegal conversions: Damoh, MP

National Commission for the Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) chairperson Priyank Kanoongo has lodged an FIR against 10 individuals connected to a Christian Missionary organization for illegal conversions of children in Madhya Pradesh’s Damoh, late Sunday night reports ANI. Even worse, local child welfare officials are believed to be hand in glove with the Christian zealots.

Priyank Kanoongo had arrived for a surprise inspection of orphanages and children’s homes being run by Christian Missionaries in Damoh district. He along with MP State Child Rights Protection Commission member Omkar Singh Markam reached a children’s hostel run by Christian missionaries located at Katni Bypass. They were made to wait for a long time at the main gate, and it is suspected that evidence of conversion activities inside the hotel was being removed.

Shri Kanoongo said that a child from the Dindori district of the state was brought here, who was being trained to become a Christian priest. Following this, he reached the Dehat police station to lodge a complaint. But even the police stalled for time, and an FIR was registered against the operators of the Christian missionary organization only after a long delay.

The NCPCR chief said that officials had likely informed the concerned institutions about his surprise inspection, adding that he himself had caught the mobile phone of an officer.

“This is a violation of the religious freedom of children. We have lodged an FIR and told the Police to investigate this. The Department of Women and Child Development here is negligent and it seems that the local officials are complicit,” he stated.

Additional Superintendent of Police Shiv Kumar Singh said that the chairman of the commission had made allegations of conversion and lodged an FIR. A case was registered against ten persons of the Christian missionary under section 370 of the IPC, sections 42 and 75 of the Juvenile Justice Act 2015 and sections 3 and 5 of the Madhya Pradesh Religious Freedom Ordinance 2020.

The matter was being investigated, he added.

The principal of the children’s hostel, Treeza claimed there is ‘no restriction’ on any child in the hostel, and children ‘follow their respective religions and use their method of worship’. She tried to explain the delay in opening the hostel’s gate as ‘security-related’.

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