UP ATS busts mass conversion racket! Arrests two for religious conversion of 1000+ people

Lucknow, June 22: Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) busted a mass religious conversion racket and arrested two clerics involved in the religious conversion of more than 1000 people including young girls. According to the UP ATS, those involved in this racket were funded by ISI.

 

 

 

 

The accused, identified as Umar Gautam and Jahangir Alam, is both inhabitants of Jamia Nagar in New Delhi. They were accused of luring more than 1000 non-Muslim people and converted them to Islam. Most of those converted were deaf and dumb or suffering from other physical disabilities. Those people also included a large number of children and women had fallen victim to the conversion trap laid by the accused.

 

 

At a news conference in Lucknow on Monday, the UP ADG (Law and Order), Prashan Kumar, stated that a major gang was engaged in religious conversion. He said that the UP ATS was tipped off about one such racket in which some people for conversion to Islam lured innocent poor.

 

 

Currently, ATS has filed a First Information Report (FIR) in Lucknow against the duo, a few unidentified people and Islamic Da’wah Centre (IDC) under section 420 (cheating and dishonesty), 120 B(criminal conspiracy) 153 A (promoting enmity between different groups on the grounds of religion) 153 B(imputations, assertions prejudicial to national integration) 295(injuring or defiling place of worship) 511(attempt to commit offences) of IPC along with relevant sections of the state’s new anti-conversion law, Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Act.

 

 

Kumar said that the names Umar and Jahangir had cropped up during the interrogation of Kashif and Vipul Vijayvargiya who were arrested in connection with a conspiracy to attack Guru Yati Narshighanand Saraswati of Ghaziabad on June 2. During the interrogation, it was revealed that Vipul’s real name was Ramzan and he had adopted a Hindu name merely to avoid suspicion and enter Guru Yati’s temple complex in Dasna area of Ghaziabad.