Uttar Pradesh

Police are probing Shabbir Ahmed's links with Jalaluddin alias Chhangur, the mastermind of the Balrampur Islamic conversion racket.

Srishti’s chilling testimony exposed fake SIMs, pressure to record Islamic voice notes, and offers of marriage in exchange for help. The racket mimicked ISIS-style operations and may have links to PFI and Pakistan-based networks.

These Islamic conversion gangs receive massive foreign funding to convert vulnerable Hindu women. They are associated with Islamist groups like the PFI and the SIMI and have links with Pakistani terrorist groups.

A 42-year-old dispute over a religious site in Varanasi was peacefully resolved, with Hindu and Sikh committees agreeing to divide the land. The site, sealed after Indira Gandhi's assassination, will now host both a temple and a gurudwara.

The 62-year-long wait is finally going to end after a recent directive by the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister. The decision came after a high-level meeting regarding the same was chaired by CM Yogi Adityanath.

A division bench of Justice MM Sundaresh and Justice NK Singh dismissed the petition filed against the UP government's order to install QR codes in restaurants .

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.

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’.

The matter was raised in Goa after SB Krishna alias Ayesha was arrested by Uttar Pradesh police in illegal conversion racket

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.