A person was arrested on Monday in reference to the incident wherein a bunch of unidentified males allegedly vandalised a statue of child Jesus in a church and made off with its donation bins close to Mysuru on December 27, police mentioned.
The incident happened at St. Mary’s Church in Periyapatna city, 60 kilometres from Mysuru, when parish priest John Paul and the workers have been away after Christmas celebrations. The incident got here to gentle when the priest returned to the church. On this connection, Fr John Paul had lodged a criticism with the Periyapatna police.
Periyapatna police inspector B Sridhar had mentioned preliminary investigations steered the accused broke open the door and vandalised the statue of child Jesus and a few furnishings within the church. They looted a donation field and escaped with two different related bins.
The accused has been recognized as Vishwa (24), a pourakarmika who was working within the church, and is a resident of Mahadeshwara Structure in Periyapatna city, the police mentioned.
After the incident, Mysuru superintendent of police Seema Latkar had constituted three groups to resolve the case. Addressing the media on Monday, Latkar offered particulars in regards to the incident. A blue hand glove was recovered quickly after the church was vandalised, Latkar mentioned, including that primarily based on this, the police arrested Vishwa and interrogated him.
“Vishwa is a resident of Mahadeshwara Structure Periyapatna city. He had not acquired his wage for 2 months on the church. On Christmas, he had come to the church to speak to the Father however he couldn’t meet him. Thus, he determined to steal the cash from the donation field,” Latkar mentioned.
Latkar mentioned the accused had stolen roughly ₹2,000-3,000 from three donation bins. An idol of child Jesus was positioned on the desk and the accused pulled the material below the statue hoping there may very well be cash, and broke the idol, Latkar mentioned.
After the incident, Latkar had visited the spot and supervised the probe. Mysuru further superintendent of police Nandini had mentioned, “Prima facie it seems as if they got here to loot the three donation bins. We’re probing the incident from two angles (theft and communal intention) but it surely doesn’t appear to be like an assault on the church.”
A case was additionally registered below sections 454 (lurking house-trespass or house-breaking), 380 (theft in dwelling home), 295 (injuring or defiling place of worship with intent to insult the faith of any class) and 420 (dishonest and dishonestly inducing supply of property) of Indian Penal Code at Periyapatna city police station.