In the year 2015, the then MoS for Ministry of Home Affairs, Kiren Rijiju suspended the FCRA registration of the Church groups- Tuticorin Diocesan, Association and 2 other NGOs based on the adverse reports received from the intelligence agencies. The government then froze the bank accounts of the said NGOs and stated that the organizations were using foreign funds for anti-national activities.
Ukraine has a sizable population of Russian speakers, particularly in the eastern regions, and the ban may be viewed as discriminatory towards this minority.
At least 18 tombstones, crosses and other structures at the 400-year-old Church have been vandalised. Ansari was tracked using CCTV footage of the cemetery.
The police informed that no tenant has been dispossessed and neither was any incident of vandalism, theft, medicolegal intervention or trespassing reported.