Nalgonda District, 21, December 2009 : A pastor was brutally injured on his head at Devarakonda village, Nalgonda district, Andhra Pradesh on 20th December 2009.

On Sunday evening around 7.30 pm Pastor R Timothy and his wife Nirmala along with their youngest child were on their way to Kottaguda village on his bicycle. Three RSS/BJP radicals followed the pastor on two motorcycles and stopped him on the way. They beat the pastor with an iron rod on his head and also beat up his wife Nirmala on her left leg. Pastor was profusely bleeding due to the injury and the passers by phoned an emergency ambulance and he was immediately taken to the Government Area Hospital, Nalgonda and admitted. He has received 6 stitches on his head.

At 9.30 pm one local pastor from Devarakonda village gave a complaint against the radicals at Nalgonda Town Police Station and as a result FIR No. 327/09 under section 324 was filed. The police are investigating.

Eight Christians including 3 pastors arrested in Karnataka 20th December'09: Eight persons including Pastor N Nagesh, 28 years, Pastor Jilani and Joshua Abraham were arrested by police in Mudugere, Tumkur Karnataka. The believers and pastors were detained while they were proceeding towards Sinderkette Kere after their Sunday worship.

The believers are M Lingaraj, Anjeenappa, K Shivakumar, Kashinath Kallappa and Imtihas. A case is registered under crime number 165/2009. The arrested were charged with forceful conversion under IPC sections 295A and 153A.

The arrested have been lodged in Mudugere sub jail. Around 12.30 in the afternoon, the police detained a total of 15

people belonging to the Immanual Baptist Church Mudugere, Tumkur district, Karnataka for questioning on the allegation of conversion by locall hindutva outfits.

Meanwhile the Chairperson of the Karnataka Law Commission V. S. Malimath on Sunday called upon people not to violate human rights.

Speaking at an awareness programme on human rights organised by the Karnataka Human Rights Council here, Mr. Malimath stressed on the need to educate people on human rights and their violations GCIC urges the Karnataka state government to rein the right violaters against christians in Karnataka.

A Court has given order to release eight Christians after the intervention of GCIC on 21st December 2009.