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The Begusarai district police in Bihar have arrested four Bajrang Dal members suspected of assaulting a Christian preacher and some foreign nationals, Superintendent of Police K Rajesh Chandra told rediff.com on Monday.
Police have launched a hunt for the rest of the Bajrang Dal members involved, he said.
The preacher, Mathew Christopher, sustained injuries in the attack. SP Chandra said a dozen Bajrang Dal activists, including two elderly men, attacked the preacher's house during a prayer meeting on Sunday in Begusarai town. They also attacked eight South Koreans, including six women, present at the meeting.
He said the South Koreans were not Christians but Buddhists, and their presence at the meeting was coincidental.
"The local Bajrang Dal leaders had threatened the Christian preacher not to hold the prayer meeting on Sunday," the police officer said, "and to keep away from holding any meeting for the purpose of conversion. When the South Koreans joined the meeting, the Bajrang Dal members, suspecting them to be missionaries, attacked them."
The South Koreans were actually associated with a Patna-based non-governmental organisation, which is a centre for community integrated development, and were visiting the preacher for first-hand information on some project.
The police have recovered looted articles such as a video camera, three passports, pens, notebooks, and religious texts and returned them to the South Koreans. The foreigners have also been given security for their return to Patna.
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