The FCRA license of Al Hassan Education & Welfare Foundation, an Islamic organization based in Uttar Pradesh, has been suspended for indulging in organized religious conversion of vulnerable and marginal communities to Islam.
FCRA License of Al Hasan Educational & Welfare Foundation (136550505R), Uttar Pradesh, has been suspended for its involvement in Organized Islamic Religious Conversions targeting vulnerable and marginal sections of society. (1/2)#IslamicConversions #FCRAViolation pic.twitter.com/dq5NmGTCdE
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The organization was granted FCRA license on April 24, 2019 to accept foreign donations for undertaking educational and social programmes.
In June 2021, the Enforcement Directorate had begun a money laundering probe and raided six locations in Delhi and Uttar Pradesh in connection with the sensational religious conversion case where physically challenged children and youth were converted to Islam.
The ED had conducted searches at offices of Al Hassan Education and Welfare Foundation and Guidance Education and Welfare Society located at Lucknow.
““These organisations are run by Umar Gautam and have been playing an instrumental role in carrying out illegal conversions,” ED had claimed.
According to the ED, incriminating evident revealed “several crores of foreign funding received by the accused organisations for the purpose of illegal conversions”.
The order issued by the FCRA Monitoring Unit of Ministry of Home Affairs on 14th July, 2021 states that the organization has reportedly been part of an organized religious conversion module targeting vulnerable and marginalized communities and that they have violated sections 12 (4) (f) (iii) and (vi) of the Act resulting in the suspension of license for 180 days.
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