Crime

Notably, the TMC government in West Bengal submitted that the perpetrators were from ‘socially backward’ background and ‘slow learners’ at school with little to no education.

Kaleem Siddiqui who is already behind bars in another case has been discovered to be the mastermind of the conversion gang.

She added that in November 2024, he marriage was fixed and when she informed Junaid about this, the accused allegedly began pressuring her to leave everything for the sake of Allah and come to him.

During the hearing, the counsel didn’t plead for bail, instead merging two petitions to allow the presence of the counsels of the accused at the time of interrogation

Chhangur Baba had a fixed incentive structure for conversions. Rs 15-16 lakh was fixed for conversions of Brahmin, Sikh or Kshatriya women, Rs 10-12 lakhs for OBCs and Rs 8-10 lakhs for other castes. The accused Chhangur Baba had also published a book, ‘Shijra-e-Tayyaba’, meaning ‘To propagate Islam’.

Mastermind Farooq Ahmad Malik, Sohail Shaikh alias Badshah and Ayodhya Prasad Chouhan have been arrested.

The tribunal further endorses the Enforcement Directorate’s case, claiming her inability to disclose her conflict of interest, and at the same time, the loan sanction violated ICICI Bank’s internal policies.

Some audio messages were also circulated claiming that Bajrang Dal members killed Muslims in Mansoorpur and other nearby villages in Muzaffarnagar. According to police, the videos were from Pakistan and were circulated as part of a plot to create communal riots amid the Kanwar Yatra.

Mohammad Ali, earlier known as Piyush Panwar, now arrested in Agra conversion case, came in contact with a PFI member Mohammad Gaus during his conversion to Islam.

A major illegal religious conversion racket has been busted in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, where 97 women are reportedly missing. Police is trying to ascertain if they fell victim to this illegal conversion network