Texan Posted February 17, 2015 Posted February 17, 2015 Asked to explain the recent spate of thefts and attacks on churches in the Capital, Delhi Police commissioner B S Bassi has told the Home Ministry that more cases of thefts were reported from temples, gurdwaras and mosques. Bassi presented the data at a meeting with Home Ministry officials after he was summoned by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. According to the data, 206 temples, 30 gurdwaras, 14 mosques and three churches were burgled in 2014. However, Bassi was told by Home Secretary L C Goyal that in the wake of the recent cases, there was a perception that a particular community was being targeted. The ministry asked Bassi to solve cases of alleged vandalism of five churches and a Christian school on an urgent basis since such incidents create animosity between different communities. At a function on Monday, Home Minister Rajnath Singh said that such incidents “dent the image†of the police. He added that though providing security to a diverse city like Delhi was a difficult task, the Delhi Police had to do it. “The police chief was asked to solve on priority basis the Dilshad Garden case where the entire church was gutted down. Though the police says that most attacks were cases of thefts, they have not been able to solve this particular case of arson,†said a senior ministry official. The ministry also told the Delhi Police that police personnel must be posted outside churches and other Christian establishments. It also told the police to act against fringe elements and provide a sense of security to minority communities. The Delhi Police has also been told to install CCTV cameras at minority institutions and raise the height of boundary walls. Sources said details of the action plan have been sent to all police stations. There are about 220 churches in Delhi, 50 of them Catholic. There have been five attacks on churches in Delhi in the past two-and-a-half months, wherein religious items were destroyed, leading to protests. Unidentified persons had also vandalised a prominent Christian school in South Delhi’s Vasant Vihar on February 13. http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/in-report-on-church-attacks-bassi-told-centre-theft-in-206-temples-last-year/
diga Posted February 17, 2015 Posted February 17, 2015 ^ dont know the details of attacks.. but is it related to theft of money boxes/Vandalizing property? ps: some coincidence in church attacks/Obama's sermon on relegious tolerance/Delhi elections
Yoda-esque Posted February 17, 2015 Posted February 17, 2015 Details that media could have reported before elections, not that it would help. The minority will never vote BJP.
diga Posted February 17, 2015 Posted February 17, 2015 Details that media could have reported before elections, not that it would help. The minority will never vote BJP. but they did not ... The first of these six alleged attacks, the fire that resulted in the burning of St. Sebastian Church in Dilshad Garden, is currently under investigation by a Special Investigative Team (SIT) set up by the Home Ministry shortly after the incident occurred in December. In a second incident in Jasola it was alleged that a group of miscreants threw a stone and shattered a window pane. The police commissioner, as reported here by a news editor and here said it was due to a group of kids playing outside, which resulted in a stone landing inside the church. There is no evidence as yet of any communal angle. The third incident in Rohini, in which the Christmas crib was charred, was determined by the police to be the result of an electrical short circuit. The fourth incident in Vikaspuri, in which a small group of men allegedly vandalised a church, turned out to be the result of a drunken dare. What’s more, they were caught on CCTV and arrested shortly thereafter by the police and have confessed to the crime. Again, there’s no evidence whatsoever of a communal angle. The fifth incident in Vasant Kunj, allegedly a case of burglary, is currently under investigation by the police. The sixth and most recent incident, in Vasant Vihar, of a burglary at a Christian school, has been determined by the police and the school itself to be a case of theft— Rs. 8,000 was reported to have been stolen — again, no communal angle. And, according to the Delhi Police themselves, there’s no evidence whatever that these six incidents in Dilshad Garden, Jasola, Rohini, Vikaspuri, Vasant Kunj and Vasant Vihar are related or part of a pattern of attacks on minority institutions. Further, again according to the police themselves, and as noted above, there’s no evidence that communal sentiment animated any of these attacks.
panther Posted February 17, 2015 Posted February 17, 2015 One guy tried to steal the donation box from our mosque once.
bulbul Posted February 17, 2015 Posted February 17, 2015 This is common before elections in many areas. I dont think anything can be done about this.
gattaca Posted February 17, 2015 Posted February 17, 2015 One guy tried to steal the donation box from our mosque once. What happened after that ? Flogging ?
Cricket_Hacker Posted February 17, 2015 Posted February 17, 2015 interesting,in 2014 there was a sharp increase in thefts in gurudwaras and temples and mosques but not churches :hmmm:
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