Authorities unresponsive and hostile against Christians in Northeast India
Police in Jharkhand, India refused to register a complaint after an attack sent several Christians to the hospital. In another incident, police officers in another area of Jharkhand falsely accused a Christian’s relatives of an assault that left a woman unconscious.
On May 10, a church under construction in Budhakaman village was partially torn down by a mob of a Sarna nationalists. According to Suman Sinku, wife of the church pastor, the mob also attacked the village’s Christians.
“The verbal abuse to the Christians was in extremely derogatory language,” Sinku told Morning Star News. “They held Suraj Chatomba and punched his jaws and back. The assailants knocked another Christian, Muni Chatomba, to the ground and kicked her in her face and upper body.”
On May 30, relatives of Reena Kumari, a 23-year-old Christian women, said radical Hindu nationalists broke into Kumari’s home, dragged her out, and pressured her to renounce Christ.
Christians called the police about the attack at 11:00 a.m., however, officers didn’t arrive until 2:30 p.m. to disperse the mob. The next morning, on May 11, Sinku and other members of the Christian community accompanied the injured Christians to the police station, where the police refused to register a complaint against the assailants.
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