A special NIA-ATS court in Uttar Pradesh has convicted 16 accused, including Maulana Kaleem Siddiqui and Umar Gautam, in the illegal conversion case. Also, one of the accused, Idris Qureshi, has received a stay from the High Court. Special Judge Vivekananda Sharan Tripathi will sentence all the culprits today Uttar Pradesh ATS says Maulana Kaleem Siddiqui, Umar Gautam and Mufti Qazi Jahangir Alam were running illegal conversion racket across the country. 16 criminals were convicted in NIA ATS court under sections 417, 120B, 153A, 153B, 295A, 121A, 123 and sections 3, 4 and 5 of illegal conversion. The sections under which the accused are found guilty carry a sentence of 10 years to life imprisonment, making all offenders liable to imprisonment for 10 years to life. Apart from Maulana Kaleem Siddiqui and Umar Gautam, other criminals include Prakash Rameshwar Kawade alias Adam, Kaushar Alam, Bhupriya Bandho alias Arslan Mustafa, Faraz Babulla Shah, Mufti Kazi Jahangir Alam Kazmi, Irfan Sheikh alias Irfan, Rahul Ahmed, Rahul Ahmed. Mannu Yadav alias Abdul Mannan, Saladin Zainuddin Shaikh, Abdullah Umar, Mohd. Salim, Kunal Ashok Chaudhary, Dheeraj Gobind Rao Jagtap and Sarfraz Ali Jafri. UP ATS registered first FIR in June 2021 in illegal conversion case. Later, in September of the same year, after an investigation, the agency arrested Siddiqui from Meerut. ATS claimed to run the largest conversion syndicate in the country. The ATS said the donation through hawala came into a trust, which it was running itself. Fund received from Bahrain and Gulf countries: ATS also claimed that from Bahrain Rs. 1.5 crore and from other Gulf countries Rs. 3 crore fund was obtained illegally. Kaleem assisted Umar and Mufti Qazi in proselytizing activities at the Islamic Dawah Center (IDC). Maulana also ran a trust in the name of Kalim Waliullah, which ran programs across the country in the name of social harmony, but under its cover a conversion racket was being run. At the same time, based on the ATS case, the ED also registered a case under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 against Mohammad Umar Gautam and Mufti Qazi Jahangir Qasmi and the Islamic Dawah Center (IDC) in June 2021. According to Special Public Prosecutor MK Singh, the criminals were running an illegal conversion racket across the country by spreading religious frenzy, enmity and hatred as part of a conspiracy. It also has international connections. For this, money was sent from abroad through hawala. They converted economically weak women and disabled people on a large scale by luring and forcing them.

Maulana Kaleem Siddiqui

A special NIA-ATS court in Uttar Pradesh has convicted 16 accused, including Maulana Kaleem Siddiqui and Umar Gautam, in the illegal conversion case. Also, one of the accused, Idris Qureshi, has received a stay from the High Court. Special Judge Vivekananda Sharan Tripathi will sentence all the convicts today.

The Uttar Pradesh ATS says Maulana Kaleem Siddiqui, Umar Gautam and Mufti Qazi Jahangir Alam were running an illegal conversion racket across the country. 16 criminals were convicted in NIA ATS court under sections 417, 120B, 153A, 153B, 295A, 121A, 123 and sections 3, 4 and 5 of illegal conversion. The sections under which the accused are found guilty carry a sentence of 10 years to life imprisonment, making all offenders liable to imprisonment for 10 years to life.

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Apart from Maulana Kaleem Siddiqui and Umar Gautam, other accused include Prakash Rameshwar Kawade alias Adam, Kaushar Alam, Bhupriya Bandho alias Arslan Mustafa, Faraz Babullah Shah, Mufti Qazi Jahangir Alam Kazmi, Irfan Sheikh alias Irfan Khan, Rahul Ahmad. Mannu Yadav alias Abdul Mannan, Saladin Zainuddin Shaikh, Abdullah Umar, Mohd. Salim, Kunal Ashok Chaudhary, Dheeraj Gobind Rao Jagtap and Sarfraz Ali Jafri.

UP ATS registered first FIR in June 2021 in illegal conversion case. Later, in September of the same year, after an investigation, the agency arrested Siddiqui from Meerut. ATS claimed to run the largest conversion syndicate in the country. The ATS said the donation through hawala came into a trust, which it was running itself.

Funds received from Bahrain and Gulf countries

ATS also claimed that Rs. 1.5 crore from Bahrain and Rs. 3 crore came illegally from other Gulf countries. Kaleem assisted Umar and Mufti Qazi in proselytizing activities at the Islamic Dawah Center (IDC). Maulana also ran a trust called Kalim Waliullah, which ran programs across the country in the name of social harmony, but under its cover a conversion racket was being run. At the same time, based on the ATS case, the ED also registered a case under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 against Mohammad Umar Gautam and Mufti Qazi Jahangir Qasmi and the Islamic Dawah Center (IDC) in June 2021.

According to Special Public Prosecutor MK Singh, the criminals were running an illegal conversion racket across the country by spreading religious frenzy, enmity and hatred as part of a conspiracy. It also has international connections. For this, money was sent from abroad through hawala. They converted economically weak women and disabled people on a large scale by luring and forcing them.