Thousands of Christians belonging to various denominations today held a protest meet here to voice their rejection of the Justice B K Somasekhara Commission of Enquiry report on attacks on churches in Karnataka in 2008 and demand a CBI probe on the issue.
Victims recall horrors of attack

August 15, 2010, will be etched in the memory of Pastor S R Satish’s memory. On that day, as the entire nation celebrated Independence Day, he was attacked at his church by about 40 people.Worse, he had to spend the next three days in Mandya’s K R Pet jail, not knowing the reason for his imprisonment.

Satish said “It was a Sunday and we were conducting prayers at K R Pet when these people attacked me asking me to stop the prayers.”
“A man named Vinod, claiming to be a Bajrang Dal activist, came with about 40 men and warned me,” says Satish. “They threatened to kill me.”

“But the good thing was that the ‘lord’ gave me an opportunity to comfort at least five inmates of the jail who confessed to their crimes and wanted to be relieved,” Satish said. He still goes to the same church and continues what he calls “spreading the word of the lord.”  read more »