AHMEDABAD, GUJARAT, July 21, 2003: Gujarat police arrested a Christian priest from Junagadh on charges of “offending another’s religion,” officials said here. A complaint was registered against Reverend Suresh Thaker who runs the Grace Ministry of India, an orphanage at Talala in Gir region of the district, alleging he threw a statue of a Deity belonging to a former employee, Veraval circle police inspector S. V. Rathore said. Offending another’s religion is a serious offence, and a case has been registered against the priest under various sections of the IPC, Rathore said. Talala police said the complainant Gopal Patel, former driver of the orphanage, had alleged the priest had flung a Ganesh icon.
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