The Bajrang Dal and Vishwa Hindu Parishad are under fire in Jharkhand where Jharkhand State Minority Commission (JSMC) on Tuesday (September 23, 2025) took suo motu cognisance of the alleged questioning by their members of a Catholic nun.

The Bajrang Dal and VHP workers encircled 19 tribal minors at a railway station for about five hours on "suspicion of human trafficking and religious conversion".

Members of Bajrang Dal and VHP had allegedly questioned the Catholic nun and tribal children over religious conversion at Tatanagar railway station on Friday (September 20) night after they deboarded the South Bihar Express.

JSMC Vice-Chairperson Pranesh Solomon told PTI that they have taken up the "serious" issue of harassment of minorities by alleged right-wing outfits at the Tatanagar Station.

"We came to know about the detention of the Catholic nun and the minor boys and girls by the Railway Police through the media. We will be writing to the district commissioner, senior superintendent of police (SSP) and the Railway Police to furnish the reasons for the detention of the nun and the minors even after not finding any valid reasons for the charges labelled against them by some right-wing outfits," the official said.

"Our team would be visiting Jamshedpur (Tatanagar is the railway station for Jamshedpur city in East Singhbhum) in the last week of September and meeting the officials concerned and the Catholic institution officials who had organised the skill development training session," Mr. Solomon added.

A minority outfit alleged that the Catholic nun and tribal minors were questioned for about five hours by members of Bajrang Dal and Vishwa Hindu Parishad leaders through the GRP soon after they got down from the South Bihar Express on Friday (September 20) night.

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