Lucknow: Four days after the Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrested two people on June 25, a case under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (ATS) has been registered in connection with the conversion racket busted by the Anti-Terrorism Squad of Uttar Pradesh Police. for allegedly forcing more than 1,000 people to change their religion.
According to a senior ED official, the financial probe agency has opened a case on the basis of an ATS FIR in an alleged conversion racket with foreign connections.
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The two suspects, Mufti Qazi Jehangir Qasmi and Mohammad Umar Gautam, were earlier nabbed by the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) of the Uttar Pradesh Police in an alleged conversion racket with international countries.
According to the official, the financial probe agency will look into the aspects of foreign funding and money laundering in this case.
Following the arrest of two people running an organization that converted deaf students and other poor people to Islam, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath issued an order under the Gangster Act and the National Security Act (NSA).
According to the Uttar Pradesh Police, the racket involved conversion of deaf children and women to Islam, in which more than 1,000 people have been converted so far. According to the police, over a dozen children of a deaf and dumb school in Noida were also converted.
Two men in Delhi’s Jamia Nagar were allegedly running an organization in Uttar Pradesh that converted physically challenged students and other poor people to Islam with funding from Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).
The arrests were made after an FIR was registered in the case at the ATS police station in Lucknow.
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