1) Falsely accused of conversions by selfstyled Grand Mufti of Sharia court, jailed for 11 days
2) None of the Muslim lawyers of Kashmir wanted to represent him
3) After his release, he has been banished by Sharia Court out of Jammu and Kashmir
4) Sharia Court has demanded from the Government to take over the management of all Christian institutions in the state
5) Rev. Khanna is being tormented by Sharia Court and is on suicide watch. All because he could not admin children in his school recommended by the Mufti.

We demand the following.
1) FIR falsely registered be cancelled immediately
2) Jammu and Kashmir government should intervene to enforce the constitutional law and not Sharia law.
3) Rev. Khanna and his family be provided security by Central Security Agencies.
4) Aggressive fundamentalist and militant approach of few be discouraged.
5) Urgently pray for Rev. Khanna and his family to stand firm in his faith in his testing time
Background

Rev. Khanna was first summoned before a ‘Sharia Court’ by an individual – a Bashiruddin Ahmed. This individual and sharia court reprimanded him severely and lately they have expelled Rev. Khanna, though the Sharia court has no legal authority to do so, (as the ‘Sharia Court’ has no legal or constitutional basis) and then legal notices were served on him by the official judicial system. Since Jammu and Kashmir, unlike some other states in the Indian Union does not (thankfully) have a draconian ‘anti conversion law’ on its statute books, Rev. Khanna was arrested under sections of the Ranbir Penal Code to do with disrupting communal harmony and causing disaffection. No lawyer in Kashmir agreed to appear on his behalf. He was heckled in court, and threatened as he was finally released on bail in early December. A case like this is a test. And we should treat it as one
The opposition to Rev. Khanna’s actions on the fact that a video of the conversion ceremony has the ‘baptized’ declaring that they enter a new life in the Christian faith. Reverend Khanna, who has been living in Srinagar for over ten years. Some time ago, some Kashmiris, who had been regularly attending his services, asked him to baptize them into the Christian religion.
He was initially reluctant to do so, and only after satisfying himself that they were not asking to be baptized for any material benefit, he conducted the relevant ceremony, not in hiding, but in public, so that no ulterior motives may be attributed to him.
The other objection has been to the possibility of monetary or material incentives for conversion. Reverend Khanna flatly denied,he in fact confirmed that he repeatedly asked them to reconsider their desire, and took the step to baptize them only after he was convinced that the individuals concerned had no material motives. . If someone responds to it with prevarication, ambivalence or in support of persecution, then they cannot be trusted to respect freedom.
Some, Kashmir media consistently spreading the canard that Rev. Khanna represents a ‘foreign funded’ initiative. Again, this is not true. Who is to say that the many well endowed Saudi petrodollar backed Salafi initiatives that are active in Kashmir. The vast majority of Muslims in Kashmir are descended from people who converted. All people of goodwill who love ‘freedom, should stand in solidarity with Reverend Khanna and his family and save their lives and rescind the illegal expulsion of Rev. Khanna and concerted attempts to wipe out Christians and other non Muslims from Kashmir. Demand by Sharia court state government to take over the management of the Christian missionary schools is fascist and draconian