.Image for depiction.| Picture Credit Report: Getty Images/iStockphoto.An unique National Investigation Firm (NIA) court of law in Lucknow on Wednesday (September 11, 2024) penalized Islamic historian as well as sermonizer Maulana Kalim Siddiqui together with 11 others to life jail time in an illegal theological transformation scenario. The court punished four various other accused-- Kunal Ashok Chaudhary, Rahul Bola, Mannu Yadav and Salim-- to ten years of imprisonment along with penalties according to the appropriate Parts imposed on all of them. Mr. Siddiqui and also 11 others were convicted under Parts 121 A (conspiring to devote specific offences against the state), 123 (covering with intent to help with a concept to wage war), 153 A (ensuring enmity between various groups on reasons of religious beliefs, ethnicity, place of birth, property, language, and so on) as well as relevant Sections of the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Transformation of Religious Beliefs Show, 2021. The various other convicts are: Maulana Umar Gautam, Arshan Mustafa, Adam, Jahangir Qasmi, Kaushar Alam, Faraz Babullah Shah, Irfan Sheikh, Salahuddin Zainuddin Sheikh, Sarfaraz Ali Jafari, Mohd Atif as well as Abdullah Umar. Imprisoned in 2021 In 2021, the Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorism Squad apprehended Mr. Siddiqui coming from Meerut for presumably running a nationwide syndicate for religious transformation. Mr. Siddiqui, 66, head of state of an Islamic count on, was actually implicated of functioning a theological sale noise via several companies and also schools he funded and receiving funds coming from international organisations. He was charged of advertising enmity between different theological teams and also distressing India's prepotence and honesty. Posted - September 11, 2024 10:30 pm IST.