UP Police arrests two from Delhi for ‘hundreds of conversions’

The Uttar Pradesh Anti Terrorism Squad (ATS) has arrested two clerics from Delhi for allegedly changing greater than a thousand folks to Islam within the state by luring them with cash, jobs and marriage, amongst different issues. As per officers, the 2 focused girls in addition to unemployed, poor and bodily challenged folks.
Mufti Kazi Jahageer Alam Kasmi, 52, and Mohammad Umar Gautam, 57, had been arrested from Jamia Nagar space within the Capital. Police mentioned they run an organisation named Islamic Dawah Centre (IDC) together with their associates, which had allegedly been finishing up large-scale conversions for the previous one-and-a-half years. Gautam himself transformed to Islam just a few years again, an ATS officer mentioned.
Additional Director General, Law and Order, Prashant Kumar mentioned massive transactions had been found whereas trying into the accounts of the accused and IDC, together with allegedly overseas funds.
The ADG mentioned they’d stumbled upon this whereas questioning two folks arrested on the cost of disguising their identities to realize entry into Dasana Devi temple in Ghaziabad lately, and for planning to assassinate its head priest Swami Yati Narsinghanand.
According to the FIR filed on the Masuri Police Station, on June 2 night, two males named ‘Vipul Vijay Vargiya’ and ‘Kashi Gupta’ had been caught by safety personnel on the temple as they had been reportedly behaving suspiciously. Police, that was known as to the spot, later mentioned that whereas Vipul additionally glided by the title Mohammad Rizwan and had lately transformed to Islam, ‘Kashi’ was really ‘Kashif’, and that Rizwan was married to Kashif’s sister.
Since the case concerned alleged conversion and faux identities, ATS officers had joined the probe.
Police alleged that Umar had admitted throughout questioning that the IDC’s important goal was to hold out conversions, and that Kasim ready unlawful paperwork for a similar. Officers mentioned they had been attempting to confirm allegations that the accused particularly focused the disabled, promising them training, marriage, jobs and cash, with their households stored at the hours of darkness.
Police claimed to have traced at the very least two of their alleged victims, each college students of a Noida faculty for the deaf.
Officials mentioned the household of one of many boys lives in Kanpur and had lodged a lacking grievance. Recently the boy reportedly obtained in contact with them, conveying that he was in South India and had transformed. The different boy’s household lives in Gurgaon.
“The inputs on the assassination bid were given by the local police. Our scope of investigation only included their activities pertaining to a larger conversion racket. They had registers, documents in which names and details had been mentioned. This gave us leads about other people involved in this conspiracy. Not just Uttar Pradesh, this network was operating across the country,” mentioned G Ok Goswamy, IG, ATS.
Kasim and Umar have been booked on prices together with selling enmity between two teams, prison conspiracy and forgery, in addition to beneath the anti-conversion legislation.
The Dasna temple priest was mentioned to have been a goal following his remarks on the Prophet. Earlier, the identical priest had mentioned he supported the person who had crushed up a 14-year-old boy who had come contained in the temple to have water.