The law appears to be targeting Jehovah's Witnesses, Scientologists, and other small new religious movements. His conviction of slandering the Polish Parliament and of inciting hatred of Jews was confirmed. In 1998, he had urged his followers to erect Christian crosses outside the Auschwitz death camp. The Polish army removed all but one cross. It was at an event sponsored by the Presbyterian Lay Committee, an independent conservative group within the church.
Religious pluralism is the state in which many different faiths are represented in a country.
The gory incident took place in the Vijay Nagar slums on the eastern outskirts of the city. Largely illiterate Chhatisghari tribals live in the densely-populated slum. He consulted a tantrik from another slum who alleged that Tikambai was a witch and had cast a fatal spell on little Manisha. She was dragged out of her house, stripped, and mercilessly beaten for hours. Even while being paraded through the narrow bylanes of the slums, she was beaten with sticks and stones.