Mangalore: Religious Conversion Alleged - Hindu Outfits Stage Protest
Pics: Dayanand Kukkaje
Daijiworld Media Network – Mangalore (SP)
Mangalore, Sep 4: Members of certain Hindu outfits staged a protest in front of Kadri police station here at around 8.30 pm on Friday September 3, alleging that a girl had been converted into Christianity through a covert operation, and was then married off to a Christian youth. Although the Kadri policemen initially hesitated to register a case, later they relented and registered a case.
In a complaint filed in the police station, Tukra Poojary from Sakleshpur said that about 14 years ago, he had sent his daughter, Yashoda, to stay with a family residing in an apartment complex in Shivbagh here, for continuing her education. He says that the family did not send the girl to school as promised, but was restrained from meeting her parents, and was illegally confined and treated badly. He has also alleged that the girl was converted into Christianity by the family, and was married to a boy from that community a year back.
He has claimed that when he came to know that his daughter had been married off, he had come here to enquire, but that the family had avoided him by giving lame excuses.
When the police contacted the girl, she reportedly told them that she had married the Christian youth on her own accord and that the marriage had been registered. She said she is a major and has the freedom to take decisions on her own. She complained that her parents are pestering her because of the fact that she chose to marry a man from another religion.
The policemen have recorded her statement. Investigations are on.