Uttar Pradesh Minority Commission chairman Tanveer Haidar Usmani asked District Magistrate and SSP of Bareilly to seize properties of people, who issued a 'fatwa' against Nida Khan if they could not be arrested.
On July 16, a Bareilly cleric issued a fatwa against Nida Khan, who took up issues like Triple Talaq and Nikah Halala.
At a press conference, Shahar Imam Mufti Khurshid Alam said that a fatwa has been issued against Nida Khan for speaking against Islam and its practices.
The UPMC chairman said in lucknow, "I have asked the DM and SSP of Bareilly to seize the property of the guilty persons in case their arrests could not be made. Officials have been instructed to submit a detailed report before the Commission."
Usmani also said, "The country runs in accordance with the Constitution and not by the dictatorship of clerics and so-called 'religious thekedar'."
Nida Khan was married to Sheeran Raza Khan of Ala Hazrat family in 2015 but was given talaq in 2016. Since then, she has been fighting for the rights of Muslim women. On July 20, the Bareilly district administration decided to step up her security aftershe came out in support of a Nikah Jalala victim in the district.
The decision was taken in view of an attack planned on Khan in Baankhana area on July 16, when she went gone there in support of the victim.
Earlier this week, an FIR was registered on the complaint by Nida Khan at Baradari police station against her husband Sheeran Raza Khan, Shahar Imam Mufti Mohammad Khurshid Alam and Mufti Afzal Rizvi.