Police have arrested around a dozen people as they intervene in an ongoing problems between members of a family over performing rituals of a deceased lady in Surajpur district of Chhattisgarh.
According to the media reports, over 12 individuals have been booked by police after they alleged tried pressurizing a family to perform the rituals of a deceased lady as per Christianity.
Problems between the family members and son of the deceased lady occurred after the latter decided to perform the rituals of his deceased mother in accordance with the Christain faith only to be opposed by members of his extended family and villagers.
A few of the villagers then informed the members of the Hindu outfits about the scuffle who in turn informed the police after arriving on the spot leading to detention of a dozen people.
Those arrested by the police were making objectionable comments against the Sanatan Dharma and were rigid in their approach to carry the ritual as per the Christian faith.
A similar incident was reported from Errabota village under the Parpa police station limits of Bastar district where a dispute broke out between the two communities over burial of a Christian lady.
The scuffle between a section of villagers and the family members of the deceased lady who reported to had embraced Christianity prior to her death prompted the latter group to approach the court for allowing the cremation to take place in a private land within the village limits.
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