Two Jammu girls missing after religious conversion

J&K police has started a hunt for two girls from Jammu who have gone missing after fleeing from home after their parents objected to their going to the church.

Jammu and Kashmir police is believed to have stumbled upon a racket in which youth from Jammu were allegedly lured into christianity by giving them money and it has begun a hunt for two girls from Jammu who have gone missing after fleeing from home after their parents objected to their going to the church.

Sources said the police has found that some christian missionaries were luring the youth with money for converting them. The conversion was taking place for nearly three years. Police earlier arrested a christian preacher,Captain Samuel,after a case was filed against him. They have also registered a case that two highly qualified girls from Jain Bazar area of Jammu fled their home objecting to their parents who were against their conversion to christianity. Sources said that police received a complaint from the parents of two girls,Ranjana Sharma and Rekha Sharma,that they were kidnapped by some people and were being coerced to embrace christianity. However Senior Superintendent of police (SSP),Jammu,Manohar Singh,said it has not been established that the two girls were being subjected to forced conversion.

Sources said that after registering the case,police received information that the two girls had moved outside the state,but police teams sent to areas like Ludhiana,Delhi and Mumbai couldnt trace the girls. A four member police team headed by a Sub Inspector was in Mumbai to trace the girls.

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Police is on the job to trace the girls. Those girls are not even keeping the cell phone due to which it is becoming difficult for the police to trace them out,” said,SSP Jammu.

Although the parents have complained to the police that the girls were being kidnapped and coerced into christinaity,police said that both the girls were highly educated and would have voluntarily embraced christianity. Sources said that one of girls was a Masters in Chemistry while the other one was a Masters in Computer Application. We have also received a case of a sikh youth who has embraced christianity. A son of a senior functionary of the Akali Dal has also embraced christianity,” sources in the police said.

However the police said that even as they have only received three cases of youth who have gone missing and embraced christinaity,they add that the number would have been much higher.

We are investigating the cases and have also arrested a christian missionary. However during the subsequent investigation we found that in all three cases the conversion was voluntary. Even the parents knew that their children were going to church and they objected to it only when they learnt that their children had embraced christianity,” said a senior police official.

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Two Jammu girls missing after religious conversion

J&K police has started a hunt for two girls from Jammu who have gone missing after fleeing from home after their parents objected to their going to the church.

Two Jammu girls missing after religious conversion