.Image for depiction.| Picture Debt: Getty Images/iStockphoto.A special National Investigation Firm (NIA) court in Lucknow on Wednesday (September 11, 2024) sentenced Islamic intellectual and also sermonizer Maulana Kalim Siddiqui alongside 11 others to life jail time in a prohibited religious conversion situation. The courthouse penalized four various other implicated-- Kunal Ashok Chaudhary, Rahul Bola, Mannu Yadav and Salim-- to one decade of imprisonment alongside penalties depending on to the applicable Sections troubled all of them. Mr. Siddiqui as well as 11 others were pronounced guilty under Parts 121 A (maneuvering to commit particular infractions versus the condition), 123 (hiding with intent to assist in a layout to wage war), 153 A (advertising enmity in between various teams on reasons of faith, ethnicity, place of birth, property, foreign language, and so on) and also appropriate Areas of the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Sale of Faith 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 and also Abdullah Umar. Imprisoned in 2021 In 2021, the Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorism Squad apprehended Mr. Siddiqui from Meerut for supposedly rushing an all over the country syndicate for spiritual transformation. Mr. Siddiqui, 66, head of state of an Islamic depend on, was actually indicted of working a religious sale racket with many organizations as well as universities he moneyed and receiving funds coming from worldwide companies. He was actually accused of advertising enmity in between various religious groups and also distressing India's supreme power and also honesty. Posted - September 11, 2024 10:30 pm IST.