NEW DELHI/LUCKNOW: The Enforcement Directorate conducted searches at six places across Delhi and Uttar Pradesh on Saturday in a money laundering investigation related to alleged ‘forced conversions’ in UP. The Anti-Terrorist Squad of the UP Police had earlier filed an FIR in the case and arrested six accused, including Umar Gautam and Mufti Qazi Jahangir Qasmi.
On June 25, ED had registered a case under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 against Mohammed Umar Gautam and Mufti Kazi Jahangir Qasmi and Islamic Dawah Centre (IDC) in Delhi’s Jamianagar. Both the accused are under custody of Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorist Squad (UPATS).
The anti-money laundering agency has claimed that both Umar and Qasmi were involved in large-scale conversions all over India. The facts, ED said, have emerged during the searches on their premises in Jamia Nagar in Delhi and other places in Lucknow and Sant Kabir Nagar.
The ED got involved in the case only after UPATS in its preliminary probe traced alleged documents regarding illegal donations, transfers from different countries, particularly middle-east into accounts of Umar Gautam and a trust run by the accused known as Fatima charitable Trust (FCT).
Al Hassan Education & Welfare Foundation is in Malihabad locality of Lucknow, and has an office in Hardoi. Accused Umar Gautam was the vice-president of this foundation, but after his arrest, he was removed from the post. Sources in the police said that another arrested accused Salahuddin Jainuddin was a member of the Guidance Education & Welfare Society in Sant Kabir Nagar.
“Several incriminating documents have been seized during the search, which reveal large-scale conversions carried out by accused Umar Gautam and his organizations all over India. The documents also reveal receiving of foreign funding of several crores by his organizations for illegal conversions. Further investigation is under progress,” ED said.
Earlier, the UP ATS, after the arrest of the sixth accused Salahuddin Sheikh from Vadodara in Gujarat, had claimed that Umar and his associates had converted more than 1,000 people to Islam by luring them with “offers of money, jobs and marriage”.
The ED’s searches covered premises of Islamic Dawah Centre (IDC), residence of Umar Gautam and his associate Mufti Qazi Jahangir Qasmi, all located at Jamia Nagar in Delhi. The offices of Al Hassan Education and Welfare Foundation and Guidance Education and Welfare Society located at Lucknow and Sant Kabir Nagar respectively, have also been searched. Umar Gautam has been associated with these organizations and has been playing an instrumental role in carrying out illegal conversions, the ED said.
On June 25, ED had registered a case under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 against Mohammed Umar Gautam and Mufti Kazi Jahangir Qasmi and Islamic Dawah Centre (IDC) in Delhi’s Jamianagar. Both the accused are under custody of Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorist Squad (UPATS).
The anti-money laundering agency has claimed that both Umar and Qasmi were involved in large-scale conversions all over India. The facts, ED said, have emerged during the searches on their premises in Jamia Nagar in Delhi and other places in Lucknow and Sant Kabir Nagar.
The ED got involved in the case only after UPATS in its preliminary probe traced alleged documents regarding illegal donations, transfers from different countries, particularly middle-east into accounts of Umar Gautam and a trust run by the accused known as Fatima charitable Trust (FCT).
Al Hassan Education & Welfare Foundation is in Malihabad locality of Lucknow, and has an office in Hardoi. Accused Umar Gautam was the vice-president of this foundation, but after his arrest, he was removed from the post. Sources in the police said that another arrested accused Salahuddin Jainuddin was a member of the Guidance Education & Welfare Society in Sant Kabir Nagar.
“Several incriminating documents have been seized during the search, which reveal large-scale conversions carried out by accused Umar Gautam and his organizations all over India. The documents also reveal receiving of foreign funding of several crores by his organizations for illegal conversions. Further investigation is under progress,” ED said.
Earlier, the UP ATS, after the arrest of the sixth accused Salahuddin Sheikh from Vadodara in Gujarat, had claimed that Umar and his associates had converted more than 1,000 people to Islam by luring them with “offers of money, jobs and marriage”.
The ED’s searches covered premises of Islamic Dawah Centre (IDC), residence of Umar Gautam and his associate Mufti Qazi Jahangir Qasmi, all located at Jamia Nagar in Delhi. The offices of Al Hassan Education and Welfare Foundation and Guidance Education and Welfare Society located at Lucknow and Sant Kabir Nagar respectively, have also been searched. Umar Gautam has been associated with these organizations and has been playing an instrumental role in carrying out illegal conversions, the ED said.
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