.Picture for portrayal.| Picture Credit Rating: Getty Images/iStockphoto.A special National Inspection Firm (NIA) court of law in Lucknow on Wednesday (September 11, 2024) punished Islamic historian and also sermonizer Maulana Kalim Siddiqui together with 11 others to lifestyle jail time in an unlawful religious sale case. The courtroom punished 4 other implicated-- Kunal Ashok Chaudhary, Rahul Bola, Mannu Yadav and also Salim-- to 10 years of jail time alongside fines depending on to the applicable Sections troubled all of them. Mr. Siddiqui and 11 others were actually convicted under Segments 121 A (conniving to commit specific offenses against the condition), 123 (concealing along with intent to facilitate a layout to fight), 153 A (promoting enmity between various teams on reasons of religious beliefs, ethnicity, place of birth, house, language, and so on) and also appropriate Areas of the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Show, 2021. The other convicts are: Maulana Umar Gautam, Arshan Mustafa, Adam, Jahangir Qasmi, Kaushar Alam, Faraz Babullah Shah, Irfan Sheikh, Salahuddin Zainuddin Sheikh, Sarfaraz Ali Jafari, Mohd Atif as well as Abdullah Umar. Arrested in 2021 In 2021, the Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorism Squad jailed Mr. Siddiqui from Meerut for supposedly running a countrywide syndicate for religious sale. Mr. Siddiqui, 66, head of state of an Islamic rely on, was actually indicted of working a religious conversion racket by means of a number of organisations and institutions he funded and acquiring funds coming from global organisations. He was charged of marketing enmity between different spiritual teams as well as disturbing India's supreme power and stability. Posted - September 11, 2024 10:30 pm IST.