MAPUSA: Pastor Dominic D’Souza of Siolim’s Five Pillars Church, has been granted conditional bail by the Judicial Magistrate First Class (JMFC), Mapusa, on Thursday.
The pastor was arrested on charges of alleged involvement in black magic and religious conversion activities, following a complaint by Vadivel B, a resident of Tamil Nadu, presently residing at Curti-Ponda.
Meanwhile, the pastor’s follower Manuel D’Souza of Bicholim has filed a complaint with the Mapusa Deputy Collector and the DGP, stating that the police were targeting Christians in Goa and have registered a false complaint against Pastor D’Souza and his wife Joan Mascarenhas and others of the Five Pillars Church, situated at Sodiem-Siolim.
D’Souza has stated that the police have misused Section 91 of CrPC and have infringed fundamental rights of citizens. He has further stated in his complaint that some miscreants are pressurising the Mapusa Deputy Collector and SDM to initiate externment proceedings against the Pastor.
Copies of the complaint have also been forwarded to the National Human Rights Commission, Goa Human Rights Commission, National Commission for Minorities, among others.
