UP ATS nabbed another accused in illegal religious conversion case
According to the ATS release, Zafri was working with cleric Maulana Kaleem Siddiqui and was involved in illegal religious conversions since 2016.
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Lucknow, October 07: Taking action in Uttar Pradesh's illegal religious conversion case, UP's Anti Terrorism Squad ATS nabbed another accused from Amroha district on Thursday.
The accused has been identified as Sarfaraz Ali Zafri. According to the ATS release, Zafri was working with cleric Maulana Kaleem Siddiqui and was involved in illegal religious conversions since 2016. While briefing the press, IG, ATS, G.K. Goswamy said that they got to know about him during the questioning of Maulana Kaleem.
"Zafri used to work at Global Peace center of Maulana Kaleem Siddiqui, who was arrested earlier. He was also a member of Revert, Rehab, and Dawa WhatsApp Group through which his gang members spread religious hatred, induced people to adopt Islam by giving various kinds of inducements," he said.
Zafri will be taken on remand and a sustained interrogation will be done. Earlier in June, the ATS had busted the illegal conversion racket with the arrest of Umar Gautam and his accomplice Mufti Kazi Jahangir Qasmi.
Later, its Nagpur syndicate was unearthed with the arrest of Rameshwar Kawre a.k.a Adam, Qausar Alam, and Bhuriya Bando a.k.a Arslan Mustafa. Gujarat businessman Salahuddin Jainuddin and Maharashtra-based doctor, Firoz Shah, were also arrested.
Earlier on September 22, the UP ATS arrested Islamic scholar Maulana Kaleem Siddiqui. The 64-year-old Islamic scholar is one of the biggest clerics from western UP whose name came up during the investigation in the Umar Gautam case. Siddiqui was nabbed in Meerut and had been on the radar of security agencies due to suspicious activities. Dheeraj Jagtap a.k.a Dheeraj Deshmukh was also arrested from Kanpur on 1 October.
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