Police tells MHA: No particular pattern in attacks on churches

Thu, 05 February 2015

21:44

Delhi Police has dismissed the suggestion that the attacks on churches in the capital had any "pattern" as there were incidents of theft in 265 temples as well last well.

In a report submitted to the Home Ministry, police said the incident at St Alphonsa Church in Vasant Kunj, where unidentified persons broke into it and took away the ciborium after scattering the Holy Eucharist on the ground, was a "stray" incident.

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