On Wednesday, July 10, the Legal Rights Protection Forum (LRPF) took to X to inform that NCPCR had taken cognisance of the complaint it filed against Calvary Ministries in Telangana’s Bellampally region run by Christian Pastor R Praveen Kumar and Sharon. NCPCR directed the District Collector and Deputy Police Commissioner, Mancherial to initiate an inquiry into the activities carried out by the pastor in the name of ‘miracle’ healing.
@NCPCR_ directed the District Collector and Deputy Police Commissioner, Mancherial to initiate inquiry into activities of Calvary Ministries & register case against Pastor Praveen Kumar and Sister Sharon for violating provisions of JJ (C&P) Act, 2015, and other relevant laws, posted LRPF.
.@NCPCR_ directed the District Collector and Deputy Police Commissioner, Mancherial to initiate inquiry into activities of Calvary Ministries & register case against Pastor Praveen Kumar and Sister Sharon for violating provisions of JJ (C&P) Act, 2015, and other relevant laws. https://t.co/1yr4HqJnRf pic.twitter.com/Z8WFadBGnt
— Legal Rights Protection Forum (@lawinforce) July 10, 2024
This comes a week after the Legal Rights Protection Forum (LRPF) filed a complaint against Calvary Ministries run by Christian Pastor R Praveen Kumar and Sharon. The complaint was filed after the Pastor was allegedly found imposing cruelty and medical negligence in the name of miracle healing towards a little girl who was suffering from kidney failure.
As per the LRPF, a video was posted on 16th May on the official YouTube channel of Pastor Praveen Kumar in which a mother of a little girl explained that her daughter was suffering from kidney damage. The mother could be seen crying in the video as she stated that her little girl had been under treatment at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Niloufer Hospital, Hyderabad for the last 3 days and that she had got her to the Calvary Church’s Miracle Healing Show in Hyderabad for her life to be saved.
According to the girl’s mother, physicians advised them that the girl would not survive any longer, so they took her immediately from the ICU to the Calvary Church, despite the doctors’ warnings. She also stated that they signed an undertaking paper stating that doctors would not be responsible if anything happened to their daughter’s life. According to the mother’s statement, the girl was unable to move owing to kidney damage but can now walk.
“The act of cruelty by Pastor Praveen Kumar and Ms Sharon of Calvary Ministries towards the little girl who was suffering from serious kidney damage. Moreover, the video-graphed the minor girl child and uploaded it on their YouTube to project themselves as Miracle Healers. This is an act of causing damage to the dignity and privacy of the victim girl,” the organization added in the complaint.
It is crucial to note that the Pastor and his wife were booked in the year 2019 in a similar case. On 25th May 2019, an FIR was registered against the duo under sections 304-II, 420, and 34 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 at Kasipet police, Bellampally after a 21-year-old person died due to negligence of the Pastor.
