Priest, son manhandled

AHMEDABAD, AUG. 16. The All-India Christian Council has claimed that a priest and his son were beaten up by some Hindu fundamentalists in Pipalwada village in Vyara taluka of south Gujarat.

In a letter to the Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission, the Christian council's executive committee member, Mr. Samson Christian, also demanded action against the policemen concerned who allegedly refused to register complaints by the priest.

Mr. Christian claimed that Mr. Nathaniel Logoraj, a social worker and priest from the Friends Missionary Prayer Band (FMPB), and his son were beaten up by the miscreants on August 13 when they were going on a motorcycle in the neighbouring Jhavda village. Some people in a Hindu religious procession who were crossing threw coloured water and mud at them. On their way back home, the same processionists blocked their way and beat them up. They escaped and took refuge in a nearby girl's hostel.

A Christian nun, Sr. Mary Stella, and another person, Mr. Sanjivbhai, who had come to their rescue were also beaten up.

Our Mumbai Special Correspondent writes:

Some miscreants disrupted a Christian Independence Day service at Dharavi in Mumbai on Wednesday. Police sources said that the trouble-makers broke the chairs at the venue which was not a church. Three persons sustained minor injuries. The Dharavi police have registered a complaint.

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