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  • 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.

  • Udaipur homicide: Pakistan-based Dawat-e-Islami comes beneath scanner for fund assortment close to border areas

    By PTI

    NEW DELHI: Pakistan-based Dawat-e-Islami, which is beneath the scanner within the brutal Udaipur killing case, collected Rs 20 lakh in donations from some border villages and cities of Rajasthan in nearly a month this yr, sources within the safety institution mentioned on Thursday.

    Also, an occasion of a politician from the desert state allegedly donating about Rs 2 lakh to the organisation is beneath the radar of businesses probing the case.

    When contacted by PTI, the politician, who will not be being recognized, mentioned he would quickly revert however in a while didn’t reply calls or messages.

    The officers mentioned the businesses have flagged a variety of current propaganda and radical actions of the organisation within the border areas of Jaisalmer and Barmer, together with Rs 20 lakh it collected in donations from locals within the Jaisalmer district in April alone.

    The organisation, the sources mentioned, collected funds within the identify of charitable Islamic works.

    Their footprints have been present in different border districts of the state, and so far as within the ahead areas of Gujarat and even some areas of Jammu and Kashmir.

    The sources mentioned the businesses additionally discovered that the organisation distributed some literature, within the on-line and laborious copy mode, focusing on the border inhabitants,s particularly these within the youthful age group.

    The Karachi-based Dawat-e-Islami web site says the outfit was established in 1981.

    On its web site, the outfit describes itself as a “global non-political Islamic organization working for the propagation of the Quran and Sunnah throughout the globe”.

    One of the 2 prime accused within the brutal killing of tailor Kanhaiya Lal Teli in Udaipur on Tuesday, Ghouse Mohammad, has hyperlinks with the Pakistan-based organisation, Rajasthan DGP M L Lather had mentioned.

    Ghouse, Lather mentioned, had visited Karachi in 2014.

    Ghouse and Riaz Akhtari allegedly hacked Teli to demise with a cleaver at his store in Udaipur and posted movies on-line saying they’re avenging an insult to Islam.

    The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has now taken over the probe within the case and mentioned the 2 needed to “strike terror among the masses across the country”.

    Some of the cadres of Dawat-e-Islami have been discovered to be concerned in terror incidents, together with the assassination of Pakistan’s Punjab province Governor Salman Taseer in 2011.

  • Tailor homicide: Prime accused has hyperlinks with Pak-based Dawat-e-Islami, visited Karachi, says DGP

    By PTI

    JAIPUR: One of the 2 prime accused within the brutal killing of a tailor in Udaipur has hyperlinks with the Pakistan-based organisation Dawat-e-Islami and had visited Karachi in 2014, the Rajasthan Police chief stated on Wednesday.

    The police have detained three extra individuals in reference to the killing to this point, Director General of Police (DGP) M L Lather stated at a press convention right here.

    Two males, recognized as Riaz Akhtari and Ghouse Mohammad, allegedly hacked Kanhaiya Lal to demise with a cleaver at his store in Udaipur on Tuesday and posted movies on-line saying they’re avenging an insult to Islam.

    The duo was taken into custody on Tuesday and booked underneath the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and the assorted sections of IPC, the police chief stated.

    “One of the accused, Ghouse Mohammad, has links with the Karachi-based Ismalist organisation Dawat-e-Islami. He had visited Karachi in 2014. So far, we have detained five people, including the two prime accused,” Lather stated.

    When requested whether or not each the accused had hyperlinks with Dawat-e-Islami, Lather stated that it can’t be dominated out as each of them have been equally concerned.

    Lather stated that wanting into all of the views and on instructions of the chief minister, it was thought of as act of terror, so investigation was began after registering a case underneath the UAPA.

    A workforce of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrived in Udaipur, he stated, including the case has been transferred to the NIA and state police will help them. Lather stated Ghouse Mohammad in 2014 had visited Dawat-e-Islami, Karachi.

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    The outfit has its workplaces in Mumbai and Delhi, he stated. Detained accused Riaz works as a welder and Ghouse is into some petty works. “It is also found that the distinct weapon used to hack Kanhaiya was made by Riaz around four-five years ago,” stated the DGP.

    On the trans-border connection of the 2 prime accused, he stated all digital proof is being appeared into.

    A case has been lodged underneath IPC sections 302, 452, 153 (A), 153(B), 295(A) and 34, and sections 16, 18 and 20 of UAPA, 1967.

    Lather additionally talked about in regards to the case lodged in opposition to Kanhaiya Lal on June 10 by one Nazim at Dhan Mandi police station over an alleged objectionable put up hurting sentiments of a group.

    On June 11, Kanhaiya was arrested and launched on bail the following day, he stated.

    On June 15, Kanhaiya filed a criticism on the police station that four-five individuals have been following him and his life was at risk.

    The SHO didn’t assess the gravity of the scenario and efficient motion was not taken on the Kanhaiya’s criticism, the state police chief stated, including the difficulty was resolved amicably with none authorized motion.

    “The assistant sub-inspector was suspended yesterday, and today the SHO has been suspended for negligence,” he stated.