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Christian pastor dupes Jalandhar family of Rs 80,000, converts them to Christianity on the pretext of healing cancer

OpIndia Staff - 17 April, 2021

Jalandhar Pastor Balwinder Singh duped a family of Rs 80,000 promising to cure a cancer patient, and converted them to Christianity

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Madhya Pradesh: Raja Khan promises to become Hindu to marry girl, ends relationship after girl refused to convert to Islam

OpIndia Staff - 8 April, 2021

The duo eloped to Delhi however the boy declined to marry upon reaching as the girl refused to change her religion to Islam

Politics

Gujarat Congress MLA Imran Khedawala tears up a copy of anti forced religious conversion bill in Assembly

OpIndia Staff - 1 April, 2021

Even though the Congress MLA opposed the bill, he said forceful conversions after marriage should be dealt with Sharia like punishment

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Uttar Pradesh: Afzal becomes Rajiv to marry Hindu woman, tries to burn her alive with children for refusing to convert

OpIndia Staff - 19 March, 2021

The victim has also accused her husband of pressurising her to have physical relations with other men and convert to Islam.

World

Pakistan: Goons torch the house of 13-year-old Kavita who was kidnapped and forcefully converted to Islam in Sindh, 2 arrested

OpIndia Staff - 16 March, 2021

On March 11 a video of the conversion ceremony of a 13-year-old Kavita Oad from Sindh, Pakistan had gone viral on Twitter

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Pakistan: 13-year-old Hindu girl kidnapped, forcefully converted to Islam in Sindh

OpIndia Staff - 11 March, 2021

The minor Hindu girl named Kavita Oad was abducted from Kandhkot and forcefully converted in Ghotki.

Crime

UP: Mainuddin arrested for marrying Hindu woman under a false name, forcing to convert later

OpIndia Staff - 9 March, 2021

Mainuddin had allegedly married the victim in a temple under a false name. When his real identity was revealed, reportedly harassed the victim and forced her to convert.

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Pakistani MP in his late fifties accused of marrying 14-year-old Baloch girl, probe ordered

OpIndia Staff - 26 February, 2021

The investigation was initiated after a complaint againat the Pakistani MP was filed by an NGO working for the welfare of women in Chitral

Crime

Odisha: 13 years after the brutal murder of Swami Laxmanananda in Kandhamal, his Jalespata Ashram gets death and bomb threats

OpIndia Staff - 22 February, 2021

On the evening of Janmashtami festival in 2008, Jalespata Ashram was attacked by over a dozen armed Christian converts and Maoists. They had brutally murdered Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati and four of his associates.

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