Overview

• Police launched the operation after an August 11 tip-off about alleged conversion activities in Veerkheda village under Sikandrabad police station.
• Nine individuals from Bulandshahr, Gautam Buddh Nagar, Faridabad and Ghaziabad were arrested for allegedly offering money, religious materials and signed certificates to persuade villagers.
• Investigators seized cash, copies of the Bible, prayer pamphlets, conversion certificates and nine mobile phones from the suspects.
• During questioning, the accused admitted traveling through neighbouring districts to lure villagers into Christianity with monetary incentives.
• Authorities have opened a detailed local probe into the network’s scope and methods and have not publicly linked these arrests to wider multi-agency conversion investigations in Uttar Pradesh.