DOJ drops forced labor case against largest Hindu temple in America

DOJ drops forced labor case against largest Hindu temple in America

(RNS) — The Department of Justice has dropped its investigation of a New Jersey Hindu temple, the temple’s leaders announced Thursday, more than four years after law-enforcement agents raided the complex following accusations that it was being built with forced labor. The BAPS Swaminarayan Akshardham in Robbinsville, New Jersey, the largest Hindu temple in the Western Hemisphere, was still under construction at the time. It was completed in 2023…