The nationwide large Islamic conversion racket busted by Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) has left the authorities befuddled as to how such a giant racket continued for thus lengthy and acquired international funding from Pakistan and Arab international locations. Mufti Qazi Jahangir Qasmi and Mohammad Umar Gautam, residents of Jamia Nagar, Delhi have been recognized as the 2 most important culprits, accused of changing over 1000 Hindus into Islam, largely compelled and consequently have been arrested on Monday.However, an attention-grabbing growth has come to mild as completely different layers of the case start to unravel. Turns out, Mohammad Umar Gautam was earlier referred to as Shyam Prasad Singh Gautam earlier than he severed his ties with Hindu roots and embraced Islam. According to Arab News, Shyam alias Mohammad Umar was born in 1964 in a regal Rajput household from Fatehpur.Shyam’s gradual stroll in the direction of Islam began in 1984 when he met a person named Nasir Khan in his Pratapgarh neighbourhood. During that point, Gautam had met with an accident and couldn’t go to school. Khan helped Gautam in attending courses. He additionally took Umar Gautam to a hospital when he was injured and introduced meals for him from his mess.Khan, being a religious Muslim, supplied books and scriptures on Islamic beliefs to Gautam. Gautam diligently learn all of the books supplied by Khan, which additionally included books on Prophet Muhammad, Islamic hadiths and different doctrines. In 1986, two years after he met Khan, Gautam renounced his Hindu religion and transformed to Islam.And thus began an incessant urge of a contemporary convert in Shyam to point out his Muslimness to his brothers. Now rechristened as Mohammad Umar Gautam, he transformed his spouse and later his mom into Islam and began utilizing each soiled trick within the e book to lure, financially weak and disabled folks into his cult of conversion. It is certainly curious to notice that Shyam is a distant relative of former Indian Prime Minister VP Singh.Read More: The zeal of a contemporary convert – How fundamentalism within the Indian subcontinent prevails even in occasions of coronavirusDuring the interrogation, the duo knowledgeable the police that they transformed round 250-300 folks yearly. According to Uttar Pradesh ADG (Law and order) Prashant Kumar,”The deaf and dumb son of a pair dwelling in Kalyanpur, Kanpur, was transformed and despatched to South India. Thousands of such circumstances have come to mild. The folks have been promised cash and jobs in lieu of conversion.”Read More: BUSTED: Massive Islamic conversion racket that particularly focused the poorUmar Gautam was quoted as saying, “I converted at least 1,000 non-Muslims to Islam, marrying them all to Muslims.” He additionally confessed to having transformed over 1,500 youngsters in school for the deaf and mute in Noida on the pretext of employment and cash.Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has instructed the involved businesses to invoke the stringent National Security Act (NSA) in opposition to the accused. He has additionally instructed to e book all of the accused underneath the Gangster Act. The state authorities has directed the authorities to start out the method of confiscating the properties of all those that are discovered to be concerned within the racket.A case was registered by ATS underneath Sections 419, 420, 295A, 505 and 506 of the Indian Penal Code. According to the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Religious Conversion Ordinance 2020, introduced in by the Yogi authorities final yr, compelled conversions are non-bailable offences with as much as 10 years of jail time if undertaken unlawfully.TFI has reported repeatedly that it’s the zeal of contemporary converts that drives them into pursuing such drastic and inconceivable concepts. Thus, what Mohammad Umar Gautam did shouldn’t come as a shock to any. He was merely following the diktat of the ummah and looking for his footing amongst the novel fundamentalists of his faith.