The Banda police in Uttar Pradesh have arrested a youth named Rambabu Tiwari aka Nasir Hussain on charges of threat, intimidation and extortion. The arrest was made following a complaint lodged by his Hindu parents who alleged that their son, after converting to Islam, started threatening to kill them for property and money. In their complaint, the family also named four local Muslim youths, accusing them of brainwashing their son to join Tablighi Jamaat, following which Rambabu Tiwari converted to Islam and became Nahir Hussain.
Rambabu’s Brahmin family alleged that after converting to Islam, Rambabu aka Nahir Hussain started demanding Rs 5 lakh and asking them to transfer the property to his name. He has threatened to kill them if they don’t do so within 3 days.
Based on the complaint lodged by Rambabu’s mother, the Banda police arrested him and sent him to jail. The police also arrested the four local youths Chhota Master, Mehboon Khan, Raju Khan and Afzal on the grounds of religious conversion under the UP anti-conversion law and sent them to jail.
It may be noted that the father of Rambabu, Pawan Tiwari, had, earlier this month, filed a complaint against four local Muslim villagers accusing them of brainwashing their son to convert to Islam. He alleged that local Muslim youths namely Chhota Master, Mehboon Khan, Raju Khan and Afzal coaxed him and sent him to Tablighi Jamaat for a few days.
After returning, Rambabu Tiwari’s health deteriorated. He stayed at home and started watching Islamic videos on YouTube. He began visiting the mosque and performing Namaz every day and also started identifying himself as Nasir Hussain. On October 13, Rambabu submitted a conversion affidavit in the SDM office and urged that his name should be changed from Rambabu Tiwari to Nasir Hussain in all his legal documents.
The father further alleged that the local Muslim youths had tricked Rambabu into converting his religion as they wanted to acquire his land, which was worth crores.
Speaking about the case, VHP district president Chandra Mohan Bedi also said that Tablighi Jamaat lured the youth to convert to Islam by offering him money.
Rambabu, meanwhile, claimed that he converted to Islam without any pressure. In fact, in his affidavit to the SDM he also stated that he had voluntarily converted from Hindu religion to Muslim religion.
Meanwhile, since the matter pertained to both communities, the police have been exercising extra caution and have deployed PAC in the village to avoid any untoward incident.
