Islamic conversion racket run by doctors, engineers - 3 arrested
Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India 
7 July, 2023
Case Summary
Ghaziabad's Khoda police station uncovered an Islamic religious conversion gang led by professionals in engineering and medicine. Neeru Bisht, a resident of Khoda, was one of six individuals in the Delhi-NCR region who fell prey to their scheme. Her family noticed her adopting Islamic practices, leading to the revelation of the situation. The police, acting on her father's complaint, apprehended the gang's leader, Dr Abdullah Ahmed, his associate Mohammad Museer (an engineer), and a call centre employee named Rahil. Interestingly, Rahil and Abdullah, originally Hindu, had converted to Islam. The gang influenced individuals like Neeru and others from Delhi to embrace Islam. They brainwashed Neeru and others such as Ajay Rathore, Amrit Singh, and Kapil Anand into conversion. Abdullah, a BDS graduate from Aligarh Muslim University, is studying Alim in a Deoband madrasa after converting to Islam in 2014. Museer, a civil engineering diploma holder, is pursuing a B.Tech and resides in Sangam Vihar, Delhi. The gang's operations extend to Aligarh and Deoband, as evidenced by their mobile devices containing religious materials used for conversion, including content from Maulanas in those locations and clips of controversial religious figure Zakir Naik.
Why it is Hate Crime ?
Religious brainwashing essentially means the often subtle and forcible indoctrination to induce someone to give up their religious beliefs to accept contrasting regimented ideas. Religious brainwashing also involves propaganda and manipulation. It involves the systematic effort, driven by religious malice and indoctrination, to persuade “non-believers’ to accept allegiance, command, or doctrine to and of a contrasting faith. Cases of such brainwashing are far more nuanced than direct threats, coercion, inducement and violence. In such cases, it is often seen that there is repeated, subtle and continual manipulation of the victim to induce disaffection towards their own faith and acceptance of the contrasting faith of the perpetrator. While subtle indoctrination is widely acknowledged as predatory, an element which is often understated in such conversions or the attempts of such conversion is the role of loyalty and trust which might develop between the perpetrator and the victim. Fiduciary relationships are often abused to affect such religious conversion—for example, an educator transmitting religious doctrine of a competing faith to a Hindu student. The Hindu student is likely to accept what the teacher is transmitting owing to the existence of the fiduciary relationship. The exploitation of the fiduciary relationship to religiously indoctrinated victims would also be included in this category. Since the underlying animosity towards the victim’s faith forms the basis of predatory proselytization, such cases are considered religiously motivated hate crimes. In this case, it is alleged that the accused were brainwashing the Hindus victims to adopt Islamic practises. The complaint was registered after the parents of one Hindu woman noticed her starting to follow Islamic practises. Since the accused were reputed professionals, they were clearly trusted by the victims and the accused misused that fiduciary relationship to disenfranchise the victims from their professed faith. Since such manipulation is targeted at victims of a particular faith, this case is being categorised as a religiously motivated hate crime.
Victim Details
Total Victim
4
Deceased
0
Gender
- Male 3
- Female 1
- Third Gender 0
- Unknown 0
Caste
- SC/ST 0
- OBC 0
- General 0
- Unknown 4
Age Group
- Minor 0
- Adult 0
- Senior Citizen 0
- Unknown 4
Case Status
Arrested
Perpetrators Details
Perpetrators
Muslim Extremists
Perpetrators Range
From 2 To 5
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