In mid-August, the town of Sehore in Madhya Pradesh made news for an arrest under the state’s anti-conversion law.

Jabbar Khan, in his late 40s, was arrested by the police on charges that he was forcibly converting people to Christianity.

A day before the police had filed a case against him and his wife Tahira, after members of the Bajrang Dal had barged into their house while Khan was leading a Sunday prayer meeting.

A video that one of the Bajrang Dal workers recorded on his phone shows them walking around the room, interrogating those seated there on plastic chairs with copies of the Bible on their laps.

Most of the attendees – numbering about 15 – were women who did not say much. But one of the attendees was emphatic as he spoke about why he was praying to Jesus Christ. “Earlie

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