.Photo for representation.| Image Credit Rating: Getty Images/iStockphoto.An unique National Investigation Agency (NIA) court in Lucknow on Wednesday (September 11, 2024) punished Islamic intellectual and also minister Maulana Kalim Siddiqui along with 11 others to life jail time in an illegal religious conversion case. The courthouse sentenced four other charged-- Kunal Ashok Chaudhary, Rahul Bola, Mannu Yadav as well as Salim-- to one decade of imprisonment alongside penalties depending on to the relevant Sections troubled all of them. Mr. Siddiqui and 11 others were convicted under Sections 121 A (conniving to dedicate certain offences versus the state), 123 (covering with intent to help with a design to wage war), 153 A (promoting enmity in between distinct teams on reasons of religion, nationality, birthplace, house, language, etc) as well as relevant Areas of the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Transformation of Religious Beliefs Act, 2021. The various other convicts are actually: Maulana Umar Gautam, Arshan Mustafa, Adam, Jahangir Qasmi, Kaushar Alam, Faraz Babullah Shah, Irfan Sheikh, Salahuddin Zainuddin Sheikh, Sarfaraz Ali Jafari, Mohd Atif and also Abdullah Umar. Jailed in 2021 In 2021, the Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorism Team imprisoned Mr. Siddiqui from Meerut for apparently jogging an all over the country distribute for theological transformation. Mr. Siddiqui, 66, president of an Islamic rely on, was accused of working a religious conversion noise with many companies and institutions he funded and also acquiring funds coming from international organisations. He was actually implicated of advertising enmity between various theological teams as well as troubling India's supreme power and integrity. Posted - September 11, 2024 10:30 pm IST.