ED files money laundering case against UP Islamic conversion racket

The ED has registered the case under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act. It has also named Delhi residents Mufti Qazi Jahangir Qasmi and Mohammad Umar Gautam as accused in the case.

 

A senior ED official here said that the financial probe agency has registered a case based on the FIR registered by the ATS into the alleged conversion racket with its links from foreign countries. The official added that the financial probe agency will look into foreign funding and money laundering angles in this case.

 

 

 

On Monday, Police arrested Mufti Qazi Jahangir Alam Qasmi and Mohammad Umar Gautam, from Delhi Monday for forcibly converting over 1,000 people to Islam. Police have booked them on various charges, including those under the Indian Penal Code and Uttar Pradesh's stringent anti-conversion law.

 

According to the information given by police, the accused were operating Institution Islamic Dawa Center in Jamia Nagar with a solo purpose to convert unsuspecting people to Islam in an organized manner and sought funds for the same. According to the UP ATS, those involved in this racket were funded by ISI.

 

Additional Director General of Police (Law and Order) Prashant Kumar said that the ATS had been working on the intelligence inputs that some people were getting funds from the ISI and other foreign agencies for converting poor people to Islam and spreading communal enmity in the society.

 

Kumar said the arrested accused would be produced before the court and the police would seek their custody for further probe into the case.

 

 Next day, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has ordered action under the Gangster Act and National Security Act (NSA) against those involved in the conversion of the physically challenged children and youth.

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