“Madhya Pradesh: Hindu women foil forced Christian conversion attempt, five including two women arrested for luring victims with money and housing offers”, OpIndia, October 27, 2025
“On 26th October, a group of Hindu women foiled an attempt at Christian conversion and filed a complaint at the police station against the people involved in the racket in Maihar town of Madhya Pradesh.
According to media reports, a group of Christian missionaries, including two women, was arrested by the police as they attempted to convert Hindu women to Christianity by offering them money and housing benefits. Following the complaint, an FIR has been registered under Sections 3 and 5 of the Madhya Pradesh Freedom of Religion Act, Section 115(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) and Section 3(1)(c) of the SC/ST Act.
Missionaries asked Hindu women to abandon Hindu religious symbols
The FIR has been registered on the complaint of 32-year-old Jyoti Ahirwar. In her complaint, she said that around 50 women, including herself, were called to a house in Vivek Nagar, near Devdhara Talab Katia, by Lakshmi Sharma and Savita Vishwakarma. The duo asked the women to remove their bangles, bindis, and sindoor, wash their hair in a water tank, and begin praying to Jesus Christ as their new deity……..”
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