7 injured after attack on Christian prayer house in Karnataka
March 11, 2013 - Seven people were injured last week when Hindu right-wing activists
allegedly attacked a Christian prayer house in southern India’s Karnataka state on
suspicion of conversion. A senior police official of Udupi district said that Bajrang
Dal activists attacked the prayer group at Moodubelle on March 7, after the activists
had lodged a police complaint against a man, accusing him of indulging in conversion.
Superintendent of Police D R Boralingaiah said the group of Bajrang Dal activists
barged into the man's residence, also a prayer house, and assaulted the people gathered
there. Nineteen of the attackers have been arrested, he said. The coastal districts
of Udupi and Mangalore had in the past seen attacks on churches triggered by suspicion
that they were carrying out conversion.