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The Jharkhand State Minority Commission (JSMC) connected Tuesday (September 23, 2025) took suo motu cognisance of the alleged questioning by a Hindu outfit of a nun and 19 tribal minors astatine a railway presumption for astir 5 hours connected "suspicion of quality trafficking and spiritual conversion", an authoritative said.
Members of Bajrang Dal and Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) had allegedly questioned the christianity nun and tribal children implicit spiritual conversion astatine Tatanagar railway presumption connected Friday (September 20) nighttime aft they deboarded the South Bihar Express.
JSMC Vice-Chairperson Pranesh Solomon told PTI that they person taken up the "serious" contented of harassment of minorities by alleged right-wing outfits astatine the Tatanagar Station.
"We came to cognize astir the detention of the Catholic nun and the insignificant boys and girls by the Railway Police done the media. We volition beryllium penning to the territory commissioner, elder superintendent of constabulary (SSP) and the Railway Police to furnish the reasons for the detention of the nun and the minors adjacent aft not uncovering immoderate valid reasons for the charges labelled against them by immoderate right-wing outfits," the authoritative said.
"Our squad would beryllium visiting Jamshedpur (Tatanagar is the railway presumption for Jamshedpur metropolis successful East Singhbhum) successful the past week of September and gathering the officials acrophobic and the Catholic instauration officials who had organised the accomplishment improvement grooming session," Mr. Solomon added.
A number outfit alleged that the Catholic nun and tribal minors were questioned for astir 5 hours by members of Bajrang Dal and Vishwa Hindu Parishad leaders done the GRP soon aft they got down from the South Bihar Express connected Friday (September 20) night.
The leaders had lodged a written ailment with the GRP Tatanagar alleging quality trafficking of minors and spiritual conversion, the outfit members claimed.
Ratan Tirkey, a erstwhile Tribal Advisory Council member, alleged that members of the right-wing outfits had circulated photos and videos of the insignificant tribals without their consent connected societal media and different platforms.
Father Birender Tete manager of Samekit Jan Vikas Kendra successful Sundernagar astatine Jamshedpur, who had been to the Tatanagar presumption and persuaded the railway constabulary to merchandise the minors and the nuns, told PTI that a full of 16 girls and 3 boys from antithetic parts of Seraikela-Kharsawan territory had travel with consent of their parents to be beingness accomplishment improvement league astatine their centre connected Saturday and Sunday (September 21-22).
"However, owed to the ordeal faced by the minors astatine the Tatanagar Station we had to cancel the league arsenic each the boys and girls were traumatised and returned home," Father Tete.
Deputy Superintendent of Police, GRP, Jayshree Kujur, said that an probe into the lawsuit is underway, but prima facie, determination has been nary conclusive grounds of immoderate spiritual conversion and quality trafficking.
