The ministry of house affairs and the Uttar Pradesh authorities have reportedly sought an in depth report on the alleged use of on-line gaming purposes to focus on impressionable younger minds and lure them into altering their faith. This comes after the UP police arrested one individual in reference to the alleged use of a web-based gaming software to focus on youngsters and youngsters for non secular conversion.
The governments on the Centre and state have taken cognizance of the matter and an investigation is underway to learn the way many youngsters have transformed to a different faith because of the “gang’s modus operandi,” reported HT’s sister publication Reside Hindustan.
On Sunday, a cleric at a mosque in Sanjay Nagar space in Ghaziabad was arrested. Police mentioned a manhunt has been launched to nab the second accused, who hails from Thane in Maharashtra.
“On Could 30, a case of spiritual conversion was registered at Kavi Nagar Police Station, by which two individuals have been named and have been recognized as Shahnawaz Khan alias Baddo, a resident of Thane, Maharashtra and Nanni alias Abdul Rehman, a Maulvi at a mosque in Sanjay Nagar space. Rehman has been arrested,” mentioned Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Ghaziabad, Nipun Agarwal.
“Throughout an investigation, the position of Rehman within the conversion of a minor Jain boy and two Hindu boys was discovered and police have seized digital proof and affidavits associated to it,” the DCP of Ghaziabad Metropolis mentioned.
In keeping with the police official, the web recreation required customers to recite verses from the Quran as a way to win. The teenage players have been additionally proven movies of radical Muslim preachers Zakir Naik and Tariq Jameel.
Naik, an accused in quite a few circumstances associated to cash laundering and spreading hatred, fled the nation in 2016.
“The accused additionally used to speak with the players (youngsters) by means of a chat software and there they have been proven movies of Zakir Naik and Tariq Jameel to steer them to transform,” DCP Ghaziabad Metropolis mentioned.
The DCP mentioned a staff has been despatched to Maharashtra to nab the accused Shahnawaz Khan. Additional investigation is underway.
(With ANI inputs)