.Picture for representation.| Photo Credit Report: Getty Images/iStockphoto.A special National Examination Agency (NIA) court of law in Lucknow on Wednesday (September 11, 2024) penalized Islamic academic and sermonizer Maulana Kalim Siddiqui in addition to 11 others to life jail time in a prohibited religious conversion instance. The court penalized 4 various other indicted– Kunal Ashok Chaudhary, Rahul Bola, Mannu Yadav and also Salim– to 10 years of imprisonment together with fines according to the appropriate Areas imposed on them. Mr.
Siddiqui and 11 others were actually sentenced under Segments 121 A (conniving to commit particular offences against the condition), 123 (covering with intent to assist in a design to fight), 153 A (promoting enmity between various groups on grounds of religion, ethnicity, birthplace, property, foreign language, and so on) and pertinent Sections of the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religious Beliefs Show, 2021. The various other convicts are actually: 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 Team arrested Mr.
Siddiqui from Meerut for allegedly dashing an across the country organization for theological conversion. Mr. Siddiqui, 66, president of an Islamic trust fund, was indicted of working a spiritual sale noise via numerous companies and also schools he financed and also acquiring funds coming from worldwide companies.
He was accused of advertising enmity between different theological groups and also disturbing India’s supreme power as well as honesty. Released – September 11, 2024 10:30 pm IST.