NEW DELHI — Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India summoned the police commissioner of the Delhi region on Friday to express his concern about a series of episodes of what appeared to be vandalism at churches in New Delhi and to instruct the police to investigate the cases, the commissioner said.
The latest suspicious incident, what appeared to be a robbery at a Catholic girls’ school in the capital, was reported Friday morning.
“He expressed his deep worry about the past few incidents in which a church had caught fire and the rest of such incidents,” the commissioner, B.S. Bassi, said in televised remarks.
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“They always have an excuse,” he said. “They’re not trying to see what we see.”
Suhasini Raj contributed reporting.
