The Indian Focus

The reports say that the pastor had been receiving threats from "RSS" groups. He was shot down by masked assailants on bike while he was talking on phone outside the church.

CBN NEWS, July 22, 2017

On Saturday night, members of the radical RSS (Rashtriya Swayamseval Sangh) telephoned Pastor Sultan Masih to lure him outside his Temple of God Church in the Ludhiana District of Punjab.

Shortly afterwards, the pastor was shot down by two young men passing by on a motorcycle...

Fellow pastor Balwinder Kumar told police that RSS members had quarreled with Pastor Masih on several occasions and accused him of converting Hindus to Christianity.

"The RSS activists accused him that, 'You Christians get paid for converting people. How much do you pay the converted?'

Kumar said the pastor denied the accusations, but RSS members refused to believe him. They also warned him against holding the anniversary celebration.

In addition to co-founding the Temple of God Church, Pastor Masih also ran a school for impoverished children.

Express, July 29, 2017

Sultan Masih was shot dead in the north-west of the country as he spoke on the phone outside his Temple of God Church in Ludhiana – the largest city in India’s Punjab state.,

He was shot in his leg, face and his chest by two people on bikes, just feet away from him, according to World Watch Monitor.

Masih had been repeatedly threatened and approached by groups of men in the area.

Yet the pastor who had worked for the church for 20 years refused to give into them.

Trainee pastor Alisha Masih, 22, said his father was also harassed over the internet, and on his phone

The 47-year-old was told if he continued to preach, he would be killed.

Despite the good the pastor was doing for his community, running a school for the poor from inside the church, the father-of-four was slain.

Alisha said: “Our father was a courageous man and he was never afraid to die for Jesus.

“He has put the same zeal in us. Our family will continue to serve God.”

Alisha also revealed after an anniversary celebration for his church in May his father had been approached by a group of men who had asked him where he had found the money to pay for the function.

They questioned the pastor over whether they would be “paid” to convert.

The Christian father, who has two adopted children, refused their requests and said he would only accept them if they truly believed in Jesus - and that there was no reward for faith.

His son Alisha said: “We don’t know if the phone call was connected to his murder

“But the people who killed him were surely monitoring his activities because they waited for the time until he was alone.”

Last week Christians took to the streets for three hours, blocking off the road to Jalandhar.

Paul Tamizharasan, a close friend of the pastor said the community is “in shock”.

Times of India, Aug 18, 2017

The Ludhiana police have arrested three accomplices of wanted gangster Dilpreet Singh alias Baba. Importantly, they were all present in the city on the day when pastor Sultan Masih was murdered in the city.

Masih was gunned down by two motorcycle-borne miscreants outside the church 'Temple of God' in Peeru Banda Mohalla of Salem Tabri area on July 15. The killers of pastor were captured in a CCTV footage on Rahon road...

On asking about it involvement of gangster Baba in the pastor's killing, Dhoke said, "It is too early to say anything, but police are verifying it."