A case of evangelical coercion has emerged wherein the Delhi High Court had to issue a notice in a petition filed by a minor’s mother, who has alleged that social workers of two Christian missionary NGOs namely – Evangelical Fellowship of India Commission on Relief and Prayas allegedly indoctrinated her Hindu child into Christianity.
If that was not enough they also filed sexual assault case against the minor’s mother, reports Law Beat.
The mother of the petitioner has now testified in court that after converting her child to Christianity without her consent, the NGOs resorted to abuse and exploit her for more than five months while she was in a Child Care Institution (CCI) managed by Global Family Charitable Trust.
The aggrieved mother told the court that her minor daughter was “trapped” by the social workers by the Christian NGO and filed a false FIR of sexual abuse against her that led to her child being produced before the Child Welfare Committee after five days, in direct contravention of Rule 81 (1) of The Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Model Rules, 2016.
The mother expressed her outrage against the CWC’s misuse of authority and unchecked actions, which resulted in more than five months of exploitation in a Child Care Institution by numerous NGOs, as well as forced indoctrination of the child in Christianity in the Child Care Institution (CCI).
She further claimed that the provisions of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 have resulted in “a denial of justice to the petitioner and her daughter, as well as a violation of the fundamental rights provided by the Indian Constitution.”
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