Bari: Five persons have been arrested for allegedly assaulting a Hindu woman and setting her house on fire in Matiapada village under Sahupada panchayat after she refused to change her religion, police said Wednesday.
The woman Kabita Mallik with two children was eking out a meagre living doing household work, ever since her husband disappeared five years ago in Punjab. Her husband Purnachandra Mallick had gone to work as a plumber, but did not return.
Three villagers Gunanidhi Mallick, brother-in-law of Kabita, Tikan Mallick, Kulmani Mallick and other recent converts to Christianity, were persuading her to adopt a similar step, which she was resisting, a senior district police official citing the complaint lodged by the woman said.
The trio allegedly assaulted her and set afire her thatched house as she refused to convert, the complaint said. The fire also engulfed five nearby houses.
The arrested persons were produced before the local sub-divisional judicial magistrate's court on Wednesday. The court rejected their bail applications and remanded them in judicial custody.
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January 21, 2006
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