.Picture for depiction.| Image Credit Scores: Getty Images/iStockphoto.A special National Investigation Organization (NIA) court in Lucknow on Wednesday (September 11, 2024) sentenced Islamic intellectual and also sermonizer Maulana Kalim Siddiqui together with 11 others to lifestyle jail time in an unlawful religious sale situation. The court penalized four various other indicted-- Kunal Ashok Chaudhary, Rahul Bola, Mannu Yadav and Salim-- to one decade of jail time together with penalties depending on to the appropriate Parts imposed on all of them. Mr. Siddiqui and also 11 others were actually sentenced under Sections 121 A (maneuvering to dedicate specific offenses versus the condition), 123 (concealing along with intent to promote a layout to wage war), 153 A (ensuring enmity between different groups on reasons of faith, nationality, place of birth, home, foreign language, etc) and appropriate Parts of the Uttar Pradesh Restriction of Unlawful Conversion 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. Apprehended in 2021 In 2021, the Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorism Team arrested Mr. Siddiqui coming from Meerut for apparently running a nationwide syndicate for spiritual conversion. Mr. Siddiqui, 66, head of state of an Islamic trust, was actually implicated of operating a religious conversion noise by means of numerous organisations and schools he funded and obtaining funds coming from worldwide organisations. He was actually accused of marketing enmity between different religious groups and also troubling India's sovereignty as well as stability. Published - September 11, 2024 10:30 pm IST.