Just five days ahead of the Delhi
assembly elections, vandals have ransacked a church in South Delhi's Vasant
Kunj area today; this is the fifth incident of such kind since December last
year.
Members of the St Alphonsa's
church have told the media that around three in the morning a bunch of vandals
jumped in the premises of the church and broke opened the main gate. They kept
ransacking the church for some time before they ran away.
In January, three people were
arrested for vandalizing a church in West Delhi's Vikaspuri area. They were
arrested on the basis of the CCTV footage provided by the church.
Delhi's Archbishop Anil JT Couto
has told the reporters, "A clear pattern of orchestrated attacks is
emerging as more and more churches are targeted, vandalized and set on
fire."
The police have informed that
there is no evidence of the arrested people having any connection with any of
the extremist outfits.
A church in the Rohini area was
arsoned in January earlier. The Christmas crib placed outside the building was
burned to ashes. Some arsonists set fire to St Sebastian's Church in East
Delhi's Dilshad Garden; traces of kerosene have been found inside the church
premises.
Various Christian organizations
have protested against these kinds of offensives. The issue of religious
intolerance towards the Christian community has been raised in the Parliament
as well. The Home minister Rajnath Singh
has ordered a special team to investigate the incident.
Experts and social scientists are
not denying the seeds of religious polarization as the pools are going to be
held in the capital city in five days.
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