Silchar, Sept. 23 : Mizoram home
minister R. Lalzirliana has written to his Madhya Pradesh counterpart
Babulal Gaur seeking immediate lifting of all cases against five Mizo
missionaries, who were arrested over a week ago in Sanawad town in that
state, on charges of converting Hindus.
The missionaries, belonging to KTP
churches, were granted bail on Tuesday after they spent four days in
judicial custody and shifted to a Christian mission at Kanapur in the
state.
Lalzirliana wrote to Gaur asking for the
“acquittal” of the five missionaries, who were arrested after a resident
of Khargon in Madhya Pradesh accused them of offering Rs 1 lakh to a
few Hindus with a view to convert them to Christianity.
Speaking to the correspondent here today
over phone from Aizawl, Lalzirliana, however, said he was yet to receive
a reply to his letter sent on Friday pleading for the withdrawal of all
cases against the five missionaries.
The home minister wrote, “Christians are
never taught to resort to using any form of material or financial
incentives in their mission works, and I assure you that the
missionaries never use such forms of enticement and allurement even in
the future.”