New w Delhi: Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has directed investigating agencies to go into the depth of religion conversion cases.
He said those who’re involved in these cases should be detained under National Security Act (NSA) & their property should be seized.
This comes after a team of Special Task Force (STF) busted a gang that illegally converted the religion of 1000 people.
Mufti Qazi Jehangir Alam Qasmi and Mohammad Umar Gautam, who was arrested from Delhi in a case of forced religious conversion.
Earlier on Monday, the accused were produced in the court of Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Satyaveer Singh in Lucknow amid tight security. The court had sent both of them to judicial custody till July 3. The court will hear today the application of the Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorist Squad (UP ATS) for police custody remand of the accused.
The UP ATS on Monday arrested Qasmi and Gautam from Delhi’s Jamia Nagar area for their alleged involvement in religious conversion of people from economically weaker sections and students on the pretext of money, job and marriage as well as children with hearing and speech disabilities, informed Additional Director General (Law and Order), Prashant Kumar.
During the investigation, it was found that the accused were funded by some international organisations including Pakistan’s ISI, said Kumar.
He stated that the arrested men run an organisation named Islamic Dawah Centre (IDC), along with their other associates, which the police said works on converting people to Islam.
