Barabanki: Seven people have been detained in Uttar Pradesh's Barabanki for attempting to covert over 100 people, police said.
Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) Chiranjeev Nath Sinha said that on Monday afternoon, more than 100 people from Ayodhya came to Barabanki's Deva Sharief area for conversion under the supervision of priest Dominic Pinto at the Navinta Prayer Centre and Church located near St Matthew's College.
Based on information about the conversion attempt, police reached the spot and found that the people were brought in buses by luring them with money and food, Sinha said.
According to the ASP, a case has been registered under the Uttar Pradesh Unlawful Religious Conversion Prohibition Act, 2021 at Deva police station against Pinto and six others -- Sunil, Surendra, Ghanshyam, Pawan, Suraj and Sarju.
The seven persons have been detained and were being interrogated, he added. Further details were awaited.
IANS with edits