A birthday, a sweet, joyous occasion, is marred by miscreants, who gate-crash into the venue and beat up everyone present there with rods and chains, leaving the birthday child shocked and wounded. Often this happens in the reel world. But what happened at Vanastalipuram in Hyderabad on 28 February 2006 was not only real but much worse!

Pastor Jacob, his wife Mary and their two daughters Kumari and Sweety were special guests at the birthday celebration of 13-year-old Anusha, daughter of Lingamurthy at his residence in Srinilaya Colony under Vanasthalipuram Police Station limits. While they were praying, a group of people wearing masks entered the house and started to beat up the Pastor with rods and chains. When his wife and daughters tried to stop them, they were also attacked badly. The birthday girl Anusha was also severely attacked and her hand was smashed between the doors.  

It was not the first time that the Pastor suffered attacks. He was attacked a few times in the recent past. When the Bonalu celebration was going on, a few unknown people came to the pastor warning him not to preach. The Pastor took the incident lightly and continued to preach. A little later on 18 th February, the same group of people wearing masks attacked the pastor while he was travelling and left him severely wounded, with a warning that he would be killed if he continued to preach.