Overview
- Police in Hisar served formal notices to Bajrang Dal leaders and barricaded the area after the group announced a Hanuman Chalisa recital and havan at Krantiman Park opposite St Thomas Church on 25 December.
- Security preparations in Hisar include three companies of personnel, four DSP-rank officers, commandos in the park, and a water cannon for potential crowd control.
- A Dec. 24 video from Bareilly showed a group reciting the Hanuman Chalisa outside a church with police present as participants shouted religious slogans, drawing wide online attention.
- In Bareilly, Bajrang Dal and VHP members held a brief demonstration and submitted a memorandum seeking an investigation into alleged objectionable portrayals during a church programme, with police saying facts will be examined.
- Reporters noted similar Christmas-season confrontations in recent years across Haryana, while the Congress criticized the incidents as targeting minority religious freedom and accused authorities of tacit complicity.