A day after the Anti-Terror Squad arrested two individuals in the alleged religious conversion racket, the police have now invoked the National Security Act (NSA) against the accused on the directions of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.
Those arrested have been identified as Mufti Qazi Jahangir Alam Qasmi and Mohammad Umar Gautam by Additional Director General of Police (Law and Order) Prashant Kumar. Both accused are the residents of Jamia Nagar in New Delhi.
According to reports, the properties of the accused will also be confiscated. On Tuesday, the ATS also got their police custody remand for further interrogation.
The alleged conversion racket was busted by the ATS following the registration of an FIR in the case at the ATS police station in Lucknow. As per reports, two men of Delhi’s Jamia Nagar, were allegedly running an outfit involved in converting deaf and dumb students and other poor people to Islam in Uttar Pradesh with funding from Pakistan’s ISI. Moreover, children and women were also lured with false promises of cash, jobs, and marriage for conversion.
Gautam, who is himself a convert, claimed to have converted at least 1,000 people to Islam. “I converted at least 1,000 to Islam and married them off all to Muslims,” Gautam reportedly disclosed during interrogation.