After it came to light that the Islamic Dawah Center operating from Jamia Nagar which is near the epicenter of the Anti-Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) protests, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has ordered action under the Gangster Act and National Security Act (NSA) against those involved in the illegal religious conversion of physically challenged children and youth.
According to Additional Director General of Police (Law and Order) Prashant Kumar two persons who were running this Islamic conversion racket have been identified as Mufti Qazi Jahangir Alam Qasmi and Mohammad Umar Gautam, both residents of Jamia Nagar in New Delhi. They have now been arrested for forcibly converting over 1,000 people to Islam, police said.
CM Yogi has ordered stringent action and asked the agencies to further probe this conversion mafia and dig deeper to arrest all those who are involved. The Uttar Pradesh government has also ordered the authorities to seize the properties of the accused.
The two men who are now under arrest were allegedly running an outfit involved in converting deaf students and other poor people to Islam in Uttar Pradesh with funding from Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).
The arrest was carried out by Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terror Squad following the registration of an FIR in the case at Lucknow’s ATS police station.
According to ADG Kumar, one of the people arrested who goes by the last name of Gautam, who himself is a convert, said, “I converted at least 1,000 non-Muslims to Islam, marrying them all to Muslims,”.
Now intelligence agencies are looking at the ‘Islamic Dawah Center’ which has received money from Pakistan’s ISI and other foreign agencies.
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