UP ATS arrests Salahuddin Sheikh who used his NGO to fund the conversion ring of Umar Gautam

In what comes as a brand new improvement within the mass Islamic conversion racket, the Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) on Wednesday arrested one Salahuddin Zainuddin Sheikh from Vadodara in Gujarat. According to the ATS, Sheikh confessed he knew Mohammad Umar Gautam, the prime accused within the case, and that he used to ship hawala cash to Umar to fund the non secular conversions.“Accused Salauddin Sheikh was arrested from Vadodara and produced before a court in Ahmedabad on Wednesday evening. We have received the transit remand till July 3 for the accused and he has been handed over to the UP ATS team, which will take him to Lucknow,” a senior Police official with the Gujarat ATS was quoted as saying by the Indian Express.Sheikh is the sixth individual to be arrested within the case because the police proceed to unearth the extent of the case. According to a report by Desh Gujarat, Sheikh runs an NGO in Vadodara named AFMI Charitable Trust and had obtained overseas funding of practically Rs 10 crore between 2016-2022.Reported extensively by TFI, the duo of Mohammad Umar Gautam and Mufti Qazi Jahangir Qasmi ran an organisation named Islamic Dawah Centre (IDC), together with their different associates. According to a number of media experiences, it’s being suspected that Umar’s conversion racket obtained overseas donations from NGOs based mostly within the US, Qatar, Kuwait, and different nations as nicely.Read More: Shyam was helped by a Muslim man, grew to become Umar and transformed over a 1000 HindusAfter being arrested, Umar Gautam was quoted as saying, “I converted at least 1,000 non-Muslims to Islam, marrying them all to Muslims.” He additionally confessed to having transformed over 1,500 kids at college for the deaf and mute in Noida on the pretext of employment and cash.In one of many earlier experiences, TFI had talked about how Gautam visited an English Medium faculty in Fatehpuri and compelled academics to transform the youngsters. When one of many academics protested, Umar used his attain and energy and received her expelled from the college.Read More: Shyam turned Mohammad Umar even transformed faculty children and received academics fired for protestingAs per a Jagran report, what made Umar’s conversion such large in scale was the pyramid model multi-level chain that he created of brokers. Reportedly, the perpetrators of the conversion racket turned the ‘converts’ into ‘agents’ for some cash. These brokers had been then assigned to draw folks to the alleged ‘motivation’ camp for which they had been paid Rs 5000. Upon conversion, the brokers had been paid wherever between Rs 20,000 to Rs 25,000.New developments are rising within the case every single day because the investigative businesses go deep into the racket. It is certainly implausible that Mohammad Umar Gautam, alongside together with his accomplices managed to run a racket alone for years on stretch, with out having the backing of massive political and overseas powers.