By IANS,
Bhubaneswar : At least 14 people, including nine women, were arrested in Orissa Tuesday on charges of indulging in illegal religious conversion, police said.
The men and women were arrested from six villages in Mayurbhanj district for violating Orissa Freedom of Religion Act (OFRA), police officer S.K. Das told IANS.
The arrests came four days after Das registered a case against them March 25 at Ragbobindpur police station, some 360 km from here.
The arrested were presented in the local court, he said.
“We arrested them after we found that they did not follow the procedures under the OFRA,” he said.
The 14 people were converted to Christianity during past six months without following the rules, the officer said.