.Image for portrayal.| Image Credit History: Getty Images/iStockphoto.An unique National Inspection Agency (NIA) court of law in Lucknow on Wednesday (September 11, 2024) punished Islamic scholar and sermonizer Maulana Kalim Siddiqui alongside 11 others to lifestyle imprisonment in an unlawful theological conversion scenario. The courtroom sentenced four various other indicted-- Kunal Ashok Chaudhary, Rahul Bola, Mannu Yadav and also Salim-- to 10 years of imprisonment together with penalties depending on to the pertinent Areas troubled all of them. Mr. Siddiqui as well as 11 others were actually founded guilty under Areas 121 A (conniving to commit specific offenses against the state), 123 (hiding with intent to help with a style to wage war), 153 A (advertising enmity between unique teams on grounds of faith, ethnicity, birthplace, house, language, etc) and appropriate Sections of the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religious Beliefs Show, 2021. The various 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. Jailed in 2021 In 2021, the Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorism Squad arrested Mr. Siddiqui from Meerut for supposedly jogging a nationally syndicate for religious transformation. Mr. Siddiqui, 66, head of state of an Islamic rely on, was actually indicted of working a spiritual conversion racket by means of many companies as well as universities he financed and also acquiring funds coming from global organisations. He was actually accused of advertising enmity between various religious teams as well as disturbing India's sovereignty and also stability. Released - September 11, 2024 10:30 pm IST.