West Bengal Religious Conversions

The CBI has initiated a preliminary enquiry into an alleged case of forced conversion in West Bengal's Malda district on the direction from the Calcutta High Court last year, officials said.

Odisha Police is planning to send a team to West Bengal to verify claims of religious conversion being carried out by an NGO at one of its shelter home in the neighbouring state.

The vice chairperson of the West Bengal Minorities Commission, Professor Maria Fernandes, visited Ranaghat on Tuesday where a convent school was ransacked, robbed and a 72-year-old nun raped last week, and said she suspected the assault was motivated by the issue of "ghar wapasi" or conversion.

The CBI has initiated a preliminary enquiry into an alleged case of forced conversion in West Bengal's Malda district on the direction from the Calcutta High Court last year, officials said.

Odisha Police is planning to send a team to West Bengal to verify claims of religious conversion being carried out by an NGO at one of its shelter home in the neighbouring state.

The vice chairperson of the West Bengal Minorities Commission, Professor Maria Fernandes, visited Ranaghat on Tuesday where a convent school was ransacked, robbed and a 72-year-old nun raped last week, and said she suspected the assault was motivated by the issue of "ghar wapasi" or conversion.