(Pratap Singh) Mohammed Umar Gautam converted to Islam from Hinduism, he is nephew of (former) Indian Prime Minister VP Singh
Maulana Kalim Siddiqui is a born Muslim preacher whose case is being looked at by US International Religious Freedom
Both sentenced to life imprisonment for "converting Hindus"...
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Lucknow: A special NIA-Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) court in Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday awarded life sentence to 12 people, including Islamic preacher Maulana Kalim Siddiqui and Islamic Da'wah Centre founder Mohammed Umar Gautam, in a 2021 case of an illegal religious conversion racket.
Special Judge Vivekanand Sharan Tripathi, in his order, gave a 10-year jail sentence to four others.
The accused were running an outfit involved in converting students with hearing disabilities and poor people to Islam in Uttar Pradesh with suspected funding from Pakistan's intelligence agency ISI, officials said.
Gautam lived in the Batla House of Jamia Nagar in Delhi and had converted to Islam from Hinduism. During interrogation, he boasted to the police of having converted "at least 1,000 people to Islam", luring them with marriage, money and jobs, Director General of Police Prashant Kumar, who was at the time holding charge of the ATS also, had said.
Source: ABP Live
Maulana Kalim Siddiqui is a born Muslim preacher whose case is being looked at by US International Religious Freedom
Both sentenced to life imprisonment for "converting Hindus"...
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Kalim Siddiqui, Umar Gautam, 10 Others Get Life Imprisonment In Religious Conversion Case
Lucknow: A special NIA-Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) court in Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday awarded life sentence to 12 people, including Islamic preacher Maulana Kalim Siddiqui and Islamic Da'wah Centre founder Mohammed Umar Gautam, in a 2021 case of an illegal religious conversion racket.
Special Judge Vivekanand Sharan Tripathi, in his order, gave a 10-year jail sentence to four others.
The accused were running an outfit involved in converting students with hearing disabilities and poor people to Islam in Uttar Pradesh with suspected funding from Pakistan's intelligence agency ISI, officials said.
Gautam lived in the Batla House of Jamia Nagar in Delhi and had converted to Islam from Hinduism. During interrogation, he boasted to the police of having converted "at least 1,000 people to Islam", luring them with marriage, money and jobs, Director General of Police Prashant Kumar, who was at the time holding charge of the ATS also, had said.
Source: ABP Live
Kalim Siddiqui, Umar Gautam, 10 Others Get Life Imprisonment In Religious Conversion Case
The accused were running an outfit involved in converting students with hearing disabilities and poor people to Islam in Uttar Pradesh with suspected funding from Pakistan's intelligence agency ISI
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