New Delhi: The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) may have intervened into the cases related to attacks on religious structures in Delhi, but it has not resulted in any significant improvement as the attacks on Churces in national capital continue unabatedly.
Worse, only one of these five cases have been solved.
The city, where single phase polling will be held on February 7, has witnessed five such attacks on Churches in last two months.
The MHA twice has asked Delhi Police for a report on such incidents and directed police to install CCTV cameras inside and around all religious places.
So far, the city police managed to crack only one case out of five and that because of the attackers were caught on tape.
Father Savarimuthu Sankar, spokesperson for the Delhi Catholic Archdiocese said that he had made the Delhi Police chief and raised the issue but nothing concrete has been done.
He also said that it is possible some elements are trying to create trouble to malign the present government.
On December 1 last year, a major fire broke out in a church in Dilshad Garden. Police have registered a case under IPC Section 436 (arson) following allegations by parish members that the fire was not accidental.
Following this, the police provided security to all 225 churches in the capital. But attack on Churches continued.
Few days later, the Syro Malabar Catholic Church in Jasola was attacked. Reports of stone pelting were reported from here.
On January 3, the Christmas Crib at Rohini's Church of Resurrection was mysteriously burnt.
Another Catholic church was vandalised by two unidentified men in west Delhi's Vikaspuri on January 14.
On Monday (February 2), a church in south Delhi's Vasant Kunj area was vandalised. Members of St Alphonsa's church said that unidentified people jumped in from the main gate wall and broke opened the main gate of the church. Police said that prayer items kept in the church were thrown around and some other things were also broken.
Christians are the minority in Delhi, which has a population of 17 million. They represent just 2 percent of India's population of 1.2 billion.
