Udaipur homicide: Probe sought into operations of Dawat-e-Islami branches in India

Express News Service

LUCKNOW: A Kanpur connection to the Udaipur killing has emerged after the hyperlinks of Ghouse Mohammad, one of many assailants of Kanhaiya Lal, have reportedly been established with a Pakistan-based Islamic outfit  Dawat-e-Islami.

As per the sources, the outfit has three centres in India and one in all them is in Kanpur with over 50,000 followers. The different two are in New Delhi and Mumbai.

In Kanpur, the centre of Dawat-e- Islami is located in a mosque at Deputy Padav Gurbatullah Park. Its function had come underneath the scanner of legislation enforcement companies throughout the anti-CAA protests in 2019.

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The president of the Kanpur chapter of the Sufi Khanqah Association, Mohammad Kausar Hasan Majeedi, has sought a probe into the operations of Dawat-e-Islami in Kanpur. 

Majeedi claimed that Dawat-e-Islami radicalized the Muslim youths and motivated them for Jihad. The outfit was in information earlier additionally as Sufi Khanqah Association, a social group having branches throughout the nation,  had levelled prices of conversions towards it final 12 months. 

“The outfit indulged within the conversion of non-Muslims residing in Islamic Gulf international locations. More than a dozen movies selling Islamic fundamentalism had been additionally launched by us to justify claims,” mentioned Majeedi.

Moreover, Dawat-e-Islami had collected large funds within the type of donation by placing donation packing containers on the crossings in Muslim-dominated areas of Kanpur. 

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Later, after the fees of utilizing funds for anti-national actions, the outfit had eliminated the donation packing containers.

The sources claimed {that a} delegation of Pakistani Ulema had come to Kanpur in 1989. After this, a centre of the outfit was arrange in Kanpur. The sources additionally claimed that mainly, the outfit had the function of imparting ‘Deeni Talim’ to the believers of Islam in addition to popularizing Islam and publishing Islamic spiritual books.

According to Majeedi, the Kanpur centre of Dawat-e-Islami had the function of reaching out to the Muslim youths of japanese UP and Bihar and radicalising them for Jihad.

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The Association members, searching for anonymity, additionally claimed that they had been receiving threats from Pakistan as they’d been opposing the actions of Dawat-e-Islami. The Sufi Khanqah Association members mentioned that they’d reported the matter to DCP Raveen Tyagi searching for safety.

On the opposite, the police sources mentioned that after getting the inputs from Udaipur, it was being investigated if each assailants of Udaipur killing had come to Kanpur earlier than the incident. Now the Kanpur police have began trying to find the members of the group working within the metropolis.

Kanpur Police Commissioner Vijay Singh Meena additionally known as an emergency assembly for diving deep into the actions of Dawat-e-Islami as quickly as he bought the enter from Udaipur.

The Kanpur police authorities created a metropolis safety plan with directions to authorities involved to extend police guard on delicate areas. Intelligence and IB had been additionally placed on excessive alert.
Moreover, the police division is tracing the folks related to this group who got here underneath the scanner throughout anti-CAA stir and their numbers can be placed on surveillance. A strict vigil was additionally being maintained on social media posts, mentioned a senior police official of Kanpur.