Ahmedabad: Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Troops (ATS) together with the Uttar Pradesh ATS team arrested a 50-year-old man from the Panigati Vadodara area, for allegedly providing around Rs 30 Lakh to Umar Gautam, which was accused of being a religious conversion case.
Umar Gautam, founder of the Islamic Da’wah Center (IDC), which has an office in Batla House in Delhi, is used to help people willing to convert to Islam.
Other scholars, Qazi Jahangir Alam, who worked with Gautam, was also arrested.
The source in Gujarat ATS said that they got input that the man from Vadodara, Salauddin Shaikh, who carried out religious beliefs named Al-Falah in Panam, had given money to Gautam.
Through this belief, it is used to provide financial assistance to widows and women who have been abandoned and used for collect money from community members to work their welfare.
“He also tried to register other beliefs for social activities, but it was not registered,” said an ATS officer.
“He also has a FCRA account (foreign contribution regulation law), from where he is used to divert funds.
We have found that three to five transactions are made by Shaikh to give money to Gautam in the past half a year,” ATS officers said.