Thane, Oct 4 (PTI) Three people, including a US national, were arrested on Saturday for allegedly attempting to convert to Christianity residents of a village in Maharashtra's Thane district, police said.

The arrests were made based on a complaint lodged by a villager, who claimed that the accused had held a gathering outside a resident's house in the Chimbipada area of Bhiwandi on Friday afternoon, an official said.

As per the first information report (FIR), books on Christianity were allegedly distributed to men, women, and children gathered at the spot and prayers were recited. The accused also allegedly told villagers that conversion would cure them of their ailments, he said.

The police have arrested James Watson (58), a US national, Sainath Ganpati Sarpe (42), a resident of Vasai,

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