
HJV activists storm Christian prayer hall near Karkala
The Hindu
The activists filed a complaint against the organizer of a prayer meeting.
A group of Hindu Jagaran Vedike activists have been accused of barging into a Christian prayer hall and creating a ruckus at Kukkundur village near Karkala in Udupi district on September 10. They stormed the hall alleging that a Christian group was indulging in religious conversion there. The Christian group has accused activists of criminal intimidation and attempting to harass a woman who had come to the prayer hall. The activists stormed the prayer hall of Pragati Centre near Anandi Maidan in Nakre of Kukkundoor village in Karkala taluk on the evening of September 10.
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