AGRA, Oct. 9 -- The District and Session Judge at Agra, Sanjay Kumar Malik, dismissed the bail application of the main accused arrested by Agra police in a case involving alleged conversion to Christianity. The accused was booked under sections 3 and 5(1) of the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Act, 2021, in a case registered at Shahganj police station, Agra.

In all eight people, including three women, were arrested in Agra for allegedly operating a religious conversion network that was converting Hindus to Christianity. Rajkumar Lalwani, identified as the leader, was arrested by police on September 2 following a complaint from a resident who alleged that the group attempted to trap his wife into converting fr...