West Delhi police say Sunday hotel prayer was routine worship; dismiss mass-conversion claims
On Sept. 20, 2026, a Sunday Christian prayer gathering at the Hyatt Centric hotel in Janakpuri, West Delhi, was interrupted by a group alleging mass conversion of Hindus. West Delhi Deputy Commissioner of Police Vichitra Veer stated on X that it was a regular Sunday prayer, that an enquiry found no matter related to religious conversion, and that a claim of about 500 people being converted was not true. The account is from The Siasat Daily (Sept. 21). No matching report from The Hindu, The Indian Express, or the Press Trust of India was located when this brief was drafted.
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A Sunday Christian religious gathering at Delhi’s Hyatt Centric hotel in Janakpuri on Sept. 20, 2026, was interrupted by a group alleging that mass religious conversion of Hindus was taking place, The Siasat Daily reported on Sept. 21.
West Delhi Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Vichitra Veer dismissed the conversion claims in a statement on X, describing the event as a “regular Sunday prayer.” According to Siasat, the DCP said: “Members of the local Christian community had gathered at the venue for their regular Sunday prayer. Upon enquiry, no matter related to religious conversion was found.” He added that “the claim regarding conversion of around 500 persons is not true; please don’t believe in rumours.”
Siasat identified the organisers as the Global Royal Priesthood Church, which routinely holds Sunday prayer meetings at the hotel, and reported that forms displayed by the interrupting group were church prayer-request and application forms rather than conversion documents. Videos circulated on social media showed the group making conversion and inducement allegations. Those claims remain the group’s assertions. They are contradicted by the Deputy Commissioner’s enquiry finding, as Siasat reported it.
No matching report from The Hindu, The Indian Express, or the Press Trust of India was located when this brief was drafted. The police wording above is the account this brief relies on.
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The Siasat Daily: Sunday prayer disrupted over mass conversion claims in Delhi (Sep 21, 2026)
https://www.siasat.com/sunday-prayer-disrupted-over-mass-conversion-claims-in-delhi-3545601/
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- Update, September 21, 2026: Brief prepared from The Siasat Daily (Sept. 21), including Deputy Commissioner of Police Vichitra Veer’s X wording as Siasat quoted it and Siasat’s description of the forms as prayer-request and application forms. No matching story was found on The Hindu, The Indian Express, or the Press Trust of India at drafting. Live page was opened. No Wayback snapshot was found. Save Page Now required a login; archive.today returned 429. No photo.