.Picture for depiction.| Photo Credit Score: Getty Images/iStockphoto.A special National Inspection Organization (NIA) court of law in Lucknow on Wednesday (September 11, 2024) penalized Islamic academic and preacher Maulana Kalim Siddiqui along with 11 others to lifestyle imprisonment in an illegal theological conversion scenario. The courtroom sentenced 4 various other implicated-- Kunal Ashok Chaudhary, Rahul Bola, Mannu Yadav and Salim-- to ten years of imprisonment together with fines according to the appropriate Parts troubled all of them. Mr. Siddiqui and also 11 others were founded guilty under Parts 121 A (conniving to commit specific offences against the state), 123 (concealing along with intent to help with a style to fight), 153 A (promoting enmity in between various teams on grounds of faith, ethnicity, birthplace, home, language, and so on) and appropriate Sections of the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Sale of Religious Beliefs Act, 2021. The 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 as well as Abdullah Umar. Apprehended in 2021 In 2021, the Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorism Squad arrested Mr. Siddiqui from Meerut for purportedly jogging a countrywide organization for theological transformation. Mr. Siddiqui, 66, head of state of an Islamic rely on, was charged of running a spiritual transformation noise via several companies as well as universities he funded and also acquiring funds coming from global organisations. He was actually accused of marketing enmity between different spiritual teams and upsetting India's supreme power and also integrity. Released - September 11, 2024 10:30 pm IST.