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Jaipur: Five people have been arrested in connection with the attack on a pastor in Jaipur on Sunday. Walter Masih was brutally beaten up at his house, allegedly by VHP and Bajrang Dal activists, right after the Sunday service, triggering off protests by students and Christian groups in the city.

While the identities of Masih's attackers have not been confirmed yet, the Jaipur police have made five arrests in the case. Police said more arrests are likely in the days to come. The police are also looking into the media's role in fuelling the attack.

Masih says he had been receiving threats from the Vishwa Hindu Parishad and the Bajrang Dal.

"I do not know who were they or where were they come from, but they could be people from the RSS, VHP or Bajrang Dal since they do not understand our campaign," Walter Masih says.

This wasn't the first attack on a missionary in Rajasthan. In February, 2005, two workers of the Emmanuel Mission were attacked in Kota. In December last year, there was tension in Kalinjara in Banswara after a conversion camp was attacked. And just last month, two missionaries were assaulted by Hindu fundamentalists in Sriganganagar.

The strain between Rajasthan's BJP Government and the minorities over alleged conversions has grabbed the headlines ever since the state Assembly passed the Anti-Conversion Bill. The police say that the latest assault in Jaipur was also because the suspects believed that Masih was indulging in religious conversions.

Christian groups have demanded a CBI probe into the matter, claiming that they don't trust the Rajasthan police.

Rajasthan police, meanwhile, say they are looking into the media's role as a possible facilitator of the incident as right from the time the attackers entered the pastor's house with their faces covered till the end of the violent assault, TV cameras were rolling at the site of the incident.

Christian Pastor Walter Masih was brutally assaulted by VHP workers in Jaipur on April 29 2007. Now the BJP government in Rajasthan has refused prosecution of the 14 accused and closed investigations in the case

[GODREKR]

I remember when this happened last year. It's funny, but I feel sorry for the wife and kid.

[strawdengerger]

That's a tough guy, drove those attackers out preaching. Respect.

[Faust]

Yeah that was cool, he drove them away without any violence! just like a real pastor

[Blood_Countess]

they barely touched him....seriously....thats all????? he had a stick why did they not beat him like a frikin pinata??? well he better thank jesus or alah or whatever he worships....
it could have been 1000000xs worse....those kids dont know how to do a proper beating....who is teaching them now-a-days:questi onmark

[benado]

[UGADawg08]

Shame he didn't have a gun. Fucking punks.

[juggalo_josh]

That's what he gets for having a bad haircut and an even worse mustache!

[Airship 1]

Those guys obviously did not intend to hurt him that bad. The pastor didn't drive them away by invoking the name of jesus. They left because they had accomplished their mission.
Besides, they had on white kerchiefs, therefore they were good. The pastor was obviously bad, because he had brown pants on. Plus, he was a huxster on the face of it. That's what pastors are... huxters. They make their living (for the most part), by separating people from their money, even in impoverished India. The ways they perform the separation are many and varied. They (the clergy) are liars extroardinaire, and don't even believe the garbage they preach. Very few 'holy' people deserve to be categorized as such.
In that regard, I can only think of myself and one or two others perhaps.

[Operior]

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