West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee said all bank accounts of Missionaries of Charity, founded by Mother Teresa, were frozen by the Centre. She claimed bank accounts were frozen on 25th December – Christmas Day.
Meanwhile, the reasons for the bank accounts being frozen are unknown and there has been no comment from the Union Home Ministry so far.
However, On December 14, an FIR was registered against the Missionaries of Charity in Gujarat for allegedly luring young girls into Christianity at a shelter home run by it in Vadodara. According to a report, the FIR lodged at Makarpura police station was based on a complaint from District Social Defence Officer Mayank Trivedi. As per the FIR, Trivedi found that girls at the home were being “forced” to read Christian religious texts and participate in prayers of Christian faith, with the intention of “steering them into Christianity”.
