A mob of about 30 Hindu extremists armed with sticks invaded a church service in Faridabad, a city south-east of New Delhi, on 3 September.
Members of the mob handed children a leaflet and forced them to be photographed holding it, before they dragged the pastor, Abraham Thomas, to a police station. The mob accused Thomas of forcibly converting children and showed police the images they had taken – the leaflet the children were holding incited communal violence and included the line ‘Let us use guns to shoot all the Hindus’.
Convincing the police
Thankfully, Thomas was able to convince the police to dismiss the false allegations, as he is from a different region of India and did not even understand the whole contents of the leaflet the Hindus claimed he had given out.
