News That Matters To Indian Muslims - Issue #58

Prominent Islamic scholar Maulana Kaleem Siddiqui was arrested by UP ATS from Meerut over allegations of “illegal conversion” on Tuesday night.

Maulana Kaleem Siddiqui has been sent to police remand for ten days after more than three hours of interrogation and arguments from both sides at the Special Court in Lucknow today, Advocate Abu Bakr Sabbaq informed The Cognate.

The Students Islamic Organisation of India (SIO) has condemned the arrest of Islamic scholar Maulana Kaleem Siddiqui by Uttar Pradesh ATS, calling it “yet another attempt by the ruling Hindutva forces to curb interfaith dialogues to fan communal hatred ahead of UP elections.”

A disturbing video from an ongoing eviction drive in Assam’s Darrang district on Thursday shows a man shot in the chest and lynched by a group of policemen. A photojournalist filming the clash is seen trampling the man, even as he is lying motionless on the ground.

Jamaat-e-Islami Hind (JIH), president, Syed Sadatullah Husaini has called for the immediate release of Maulana Kaleem Siddiqui who was arrested by Uttar Pradesh ATS on Tuesday evening in connection with the Dr Umar Gautam religious conversion case.

At a time when the Hindutva brigade is crying “forced conversions”, “Ghar Wapsi” and “love jihad” and the state is jailing scholars and ordinary men of the Muslim community in false cases, a new study by the influential Pew Research Forum has found that religious conversion has a negligible impact on the overall population composition of India.

Student leader and activist Atikur Rahman, who was arrested along with journalist Siddique Kappan last year, was rushed to Sarojini Naidu Hospital at Agra yesterday and admitted there following a rapid deterioration in his health condition.

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