New Delhi/Chennai: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has named Islamic preacher Zakir Naik and two hardline preachers of Pakistan origin as accused in an FIR pertaining to a high-profile “love jihad” case.
The high-profile case involves the daughter of a Chennai-based businessman and the son of a top Bangladesh politician, belonging to former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia’s Bangladesh Nationalist Party.
The NIA is probing the Indian businessman’s daughter and Bangladesh politician son’s marriage in London. Zakir Naik, who is wanted by Indian enforcement agencies, and the hardline preachers of Pakistani-origin based in the US have been named as accused in the case, according to information accessed by .
The girl’s father had initially lodged a complaint with the Chennai Central Crime Branch in May, alleging his daughter who was studying in London was radicalized and was forced to covert to Islam. He had also alleged that his daughter was abducted from London and taken to Bangladesh by some Bangladeshis.
The persons named in the NIA’s FIR are Zakir Naik, as well as Yasir Qadhi and Nauman Ali Khan, both US-based Islamic preachers.
Qadhi had put a video of Naik where he was seen making sensational claims on safe passage from India when he was being pursued by Indian enforcement agencies. The prime accused is Nafees, son of Shakhawat Hossain Bakul, a BNP leader and former Member of Parliament.