Lucknow: Anti-Terrorist Force (ATS) Uttar Pradesh Police on Monday arrested three more in connection with the alleged illegal repentance of at least 1,000 poor people for Islam.
ATS also looked into 50 lakh RS funds from Qatar, Abu Dhabi and Riyadh.
The people arrested were identified as Irfan Sheikh, who came from Maharashtra, Rahul Bhola from Delhi and Mannu Yadav from Gurgaon in Haryana.
Previously on June 21, ATS had arrested two people, Umar Gautam and Mufti Kazi Jahangeer Qasmi, in connection with the alleged illegal conversion.
ADG, Law and Order, Prashant Kumar told TII, “Irfan worked as a translator at the Indian Sign Lange Research and Training Center (ISLRTC), in Delhi.
This is a government training center that comes under the Ministry of Social Justice of the United States.” “Irfan Used to wash the brains of children like that and make them repent to Islam at the Islamic Dawah Center (IDC), in Jamia Nagar of Delhi.
IDC is run by the Mufti Kazi Jahatair Qasmi, who is now in the detention of ATS.
Rahul and Mannu also visually And hearing loss associated with other other children to convert to Islam through Irfan, “Kumar said.
He said ATS was conducting a search in Aligarh, Varanasi, Azamgarh, Noida, Agra, Ghaziabad and Kanpur while the police chief of 27 other districts were also asked to conduct investigations in their respective districts.
Inspector General of Police, ATS, GK Goswamy, who led the probe, said violations of foreign management laws (FEMA) was detected during transactions made in the Fatima Charitable Trust bank account.
“There is no refund of income tax submitted by trust.
From January 2010 to June 14, 2020, IDC received Rs 1.74 Crore through cash and checks from abroad, which was largely found by Hawala transactions,” Goswamy said.
He added that Rs 50 Lakh was received by the trust of Qatar, Abu Dhabi and Riyadh under the scanner.
“Run by Umar Gautam and Jahangeer Qasmi, IDC is the official inspection center of the DOHA-based online Islamic University, which is owned by Bilal Philip, who was arrested in 2014 in the Philippines because it incited hatred,” IG said.
Goswamy added that Umar Gautam worked with an NGO, Markazul Ma’arif, in Assam from 2002 to 2010.
“In 2020, cases related to FEMA and Terror activities were submitted against this NGO in the districts of Dispurs and Hojai.
Umar Gautam has been Receive payments from this NGO account, “he said.
Ig said a pine also lodged at the Khakhreru Fatehpur police station against someone, Vijay Sonkar, on charges of religious conversion.
“Vijay works as a driver and converts to Islam.
He allegedly forced underage children to repent.
Vijay was arrested by police Fatehpur and ATS would ask him,” he said.