The Police is said to have filed a police case under the Odissha Freedom of Religion Act, 1967 and have also seized a Bible, passports, cash and some medicines from the accused.
The Portuguese inquisition of Goa started when Vasco Da Gama returned to Portugal after he discovered the route to India via Africa’s Cape of Good Hope.
The deceased woman, Mate Bekko was a tribal woman who had lately converted to Christianity. The villagers gathered during her funeral and opposed to her burial process. They demanded her cremation instead.
In April last year, one Himanshu Dixit had complained that a large number of people had gathered to convert local Hindus to Christianity by luring them with money and other tactics.