.Image for portrayal.| Photograph Credit History: Getty Images/iStockphoto.An exclusive National Investigation Firm (NIA) court in Lucknow on Wednesday (September 11, 2024) sentenced Islamic academic and also minister Maulana Kalim Siddiqui in addition to 11 others to life jail time in a prohibited religious conversion scenario. The court penalized four other indicted– Kunal Ashok Chaudhary, Rahul Bola, Mannu Yadav and Salim– to one decade of jail time alongside fines depending on to the appropriate Areas troubled them. Mr.
Siddiqui and also 11 others were actually sentenced under Segments 121 A (maneuvering to devote particular offenses versus the state), 123 (covering along with intent to help with a style to wage war), 153 A (ensuring enmity between unique groups on grounds of religion, ethnicity, place of birth, house, foreign language, and so on) and pertinent Parts of the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Act, 2021. The various other convicts are: Maulana Umar Gautam, Arshan Mustafa, Adam, Jahangir Qasmi, Kaushar Alam, Faraz Babullah Shah, Irfan Sheikh, Salahuddin Zainuddin Sheikh, Sarfaraz Ali Jafari, Mohd Atif and also Abdullah Umar. Jailed in 2021 In 2021, the Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorism Squad arrested Mr.
Siddiqui coming from Meerut for purportedly running an across the country organization for theological conversion. Mr. Siddiqui, 66, president of an Islamic trust, was indicted of functioning a religious conversion noise by means of several companies and also colleges he moneyed as well as receiving funds from international organizations.
He was accused of advertising enmity in between different religious groups as well as disturbing India’s supreme power and also honesty. Posted – September 11, 2024 10:30 pm IST.