Vadodara: The Institute carried out by charity missionaries in Makarpura was ordered for allegedly trying to forcibly turn young girls who lived there.
MAKARPURA police on Sunday submitted a case against children at home for girls under the amendment of Gujarat Religious Freedom Act 2003 section 295 (a) related to intentional and dangerous actions intended to make any feeling or class.
The move occurred after the Chairman of the National Commission for Protection of the Chairperson of the Children’s Rights (NCPCR) visited the children’s house in August this year.
“He found several anomalies at the Institute and wrote a letter to the district collector who asked for a complaint against the Institute.
So, a committee was formed to investigate this case and it gave a report to the collector.
So, I have filed a complaint to the police,” said TRIVEDI, “said Trivedi said Social Security Officer.
Trivedi, however, said that he was not authorized to divulge further details because his case was about minors.
The police said that the institute was accused of trying to change some young girls and they were asked to wear a cross.
Sister Rose Terrassa, working at the Institute, rejected all allegations of religious conversion in children’s homes and said that they only educated children.
Children’s homes negate orphans and those who are saved from child labor.
When asked what led the complainants to believe that the Institute was involved in religious conversion, the Makarpura Police Inspector J I Patel said, “According to the complaint, 13 Bible copies were found in the Institute Library.
The NCPCR chairman said that his investigation took him to believe that the Institute used the conversion of girls -Gadis young.
“Police added that there were accusations that the girls were asked to read the Bible and women’s weddings from other religions carried out according to Christian rituals.
City Police Commissioner Shamsher Singh said, “There is a prime facie three things in complaints of social security officers.
A girl is converted to Christianity without permission from the collector who is obligatory and some girls at the Institute are given the Bible and crosses to use.
We will now investigate complaints.”