Udaipur homicide: Pakistan-based Dawat-e-Islami comes beneath scanner for fund assortment close to border areas

By PTI

NEW DELHI: Pakistan-based Dawat-e-Islami, which is beneath the scanner within the brutal Udaipur killing case, collected Rs 20 lakh in donations from some border villages and cities of Rajasthan in nearly a month this yr, sources within the safety institution mentioned on Thursday.

Also, an occasion of a politician from the desert state allegedly donating about Rs 2 lakh to the organisation is beneath the radar of businesses probing the case.

When contacted by PTI, the politician, who will not be being recognized, mentioned he would quickly revert however in a while didn’t reply calls or messages.

The officers mentioned the businesses have flagged a variety of current propaganda and radical actions of the organisation within the border areas of Jaisalmer and Barmer, together with Rs 20 lakh it collected in donations from locals within the Jaisalmer district in April alone.

The organisation, the sources mentioned, collected funds within the identify of charitable Islamic works.

Their footprints have been present in different border districts of the state, and so far as within the ahead areas of Gujarat and even some areas of Jammu and Kashmir.

The sources mentioned the businesses additionally discovered that the organisation distributed some literature, within the on-line and laborious copy mode, focusing on the border inhabitants,s particularly these within the youthful age group.

The Karachi-based Dawat-e-Islami web site says the outfit was established in 1981.

On its web site, the outfit describes itself as a “global non-political Islamic organization working for the propagation of the Quran and Sunnah throughout the globe”.

One of the 2 prime accused within the brutal killing of tailor Kanhaiya Lal Teli in Udaipur on Tuesday, Ghouse Mohammad, has hyperlinks with the Pakistan-based organisation, Rajasthan DGP M L Lather had mentioned.

Ghouse, Lather mentioned, had visited Karachi in 2014.

Ghouse and Riaz Akhtari allegedly hacked Teli to demise with a cleaver at his store in Udaipur and posted movies on-line saying they’re avenging an insult to Islam.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has now taken over the probe within the case and mentioned the 2 needed to “strike terror among the masses across the country”.

Some of the cadres of Dawat-e-Islami have been discovered to be concerned in terror incidents, together with the assassination of Pakistan’s Punjab province Governor Salman Taseer in 2011.