Four men have been arrested for this weekend's attack on a church in the township of Navi Mumbai, just outside the financial capital. Maharashtra chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis had given the state police till tomorrow to track down the suspects.
On Saturday, a group of masked men were caught on security cameras throwing stones at the church in Navi Mumbai. Days later, nobody had been arrested, provoking the Chief Minister to declare a 48-hour deadline yesterday for the police to deliver those wanted. The men arrested are locals and are not affiliated to any political or religious group, said the police. One of them suspected church officials of having alerted the police to an illegal club that he allegedly ran; as revenge, he reportedly hired three friends to stone the church.
"If Prime Minister Modi wants to be an effective leader, then he should take his assurances to minorities to their logical consequences," said Cardinal Oswald Gracias, the Archbishop of the Bombay Diocese, to NDTV before the arrests were made. "The government is not acting swiftly and strongly enough. I don't want to say the BJP has an anti-Christian agenda, but one cannot close one's eyes to fact that these attacks have multiplied after they came to power," he said.
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