Topic: Conversion

Committee to Protect Journalists has urged Uttar Pradesh government authorities to drop their criminal investigations into journalists Nidhi Suresh, Manoj Shukla, and Yashwant Singh, and cease harassing members of the press over their work.

The Sadar Bazar police in Uttar Pradesh's Shahjahanpur have registered an FIR against Newslaundry journalist Nidhi Suresh pursuant to a defamation complaint filed by journalist Deep Srivastava, after Nidhi had written a report containing allegations of a woman named Ayesha Alvi that she was harassed by the journalist Srivastava after her conversion to Islam.

The daughter of jailed Muslim scholar, Mohammed Umar Gautam, defended the innocence of her father refuting the claims of investigation agencies and media. Speaking to Maktoob, she said the accusations are false and her father only exercised his constitutional rights.

All India Da'wah Centres Association has said that the recent arrests of two Muslim scholars Mohammad Umar Gautam and Mufti Quazi Jahangeer Quasmi by the Anti-Terrorist Squad of Uttar Pradesh under draconian anti-conversion law, violated the duo's constitutional rights at every stage.

The Uttar Pradesh Police's Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) has arrested Muslim clerics Mufti Qazi Jahangir Qasmi and Mohammad Umar Gautam from South Delhi's Jamia Nagar on Monday under the draconian anti-conversion law.

Janata Dal (United) passed a resolution against the anti-conversion laws that have been passed by BJP governments in states.