4 women arrested for luring Gurugram slum students with food to adopt Christianity

Police have arrested four women for encouraging children living in slums to adopt Christianity while running a private school, news agency Press Trust of India reported on Sunday.The arrests followed a police raid on the school in Ghata village in Gurugram. A case has been registered under the Haryana Prevention of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Act, 2022, and the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.The women have been identified as Suman Kumari, 21, a resident of Delhi's Azadpur; Rajkumari Chaoba Singh, 36, who is from Manipur's Bishnupur district and lives in Gurugram's Sector 86; Ashmita Chahar, 35, who is originally from Nepal and lives in Delhi's Kotla; and Lalnunpuii, 31, who is from Aizawl in Mizoram and lives in Dwarka.According to police, a person submitted a complaint at the Sector 56 police station on Saturday, alleging that some unidentified people, including women, were running a private school for children living in slums from makeshift rooms near a service station along SPR Road in Ghata village. The complainant said that the accused provided food and other essential supplies to the children and conducted activities linked to religious conversion. They tried to influence the children to adopt Christianity by offering them food and other items.A police team raided the location and found four women there. They were arrested under the relevant legal provisions, officials told PTI. Police said a preliminary investigation indicated an attempt at religious conversion, following which an FIR was registered. Police said Lalnunpuii works as a human resources professional at a private company, while Ashmita Chahar volunteers with cancer patients at a hospital. Rajkumari Chaoba Singh works as a lead analyst at a private company, and Suman Kumari graduated last year and is preparing for a Bachelor of Education degree."These women had been visiting Gurugram from Delhi every Saturday for the past year and were running a private school in the name of providing education, food and other refreshments to children, while encouraging them to adopt Christianity," a senior police officer told PTI, adding that they were being questioned."We have recovered a CCTV camera from the spot and one mobile phone from the possession of Suman Kumari," the officer said.The four women remain accused of attempting to encourage religious conversion through the school, while police are questioning them and examining the seized CCTV camera and mobile phone.- Ends(With PTI inputs)