Forceful conversion and trading of illegal weapons in Dargah [Karnataka, India]

[Reported as seen]

Reportedly, Ashraf and his mother were running a ‘Love Jihad’ racket. Ashraf, who heads the Khanqah-e-Ashrafia Hussainia Qutbe, a dargah (Muslim shrine) in Bengaluru, Karnataka has also been found trading in illegal weapons, harboring foreign nationals, and torturing his wife for dowry.

The woman, a resident of Lucknow, informed that she married Ashraf in 2019 and after that moved in with him in Bengaluru. His family was welcoming initially, however, they started to pressurize her into befriending non-Muslim women and getting them home, she revealed. The woman informed that she initially followed their instructions out of fear of losing her husband.

“Later, when I got pregnant, Ashraf forced me to undergo a sex determination test. When Ashraf and her mother got to know that the unborn baby was a girl, they thrashed me. They called my brother and demanded Rs 25 lakh for sparing my life. My brother paid Rs 7.5 lakh to them,” said the woman, as per reports.

The woman revealed that the mother-son duo was running a ‘love jihad’ racket and lured visitors to the shrine to later trap to further their campaign. She also revealed that the dargah is a hub of illegal money and arms deals.
“Ashraf married a Hindu girl eventually and renamed her Madiha. She was later shifted to the shrine where she was given training in weaponry,” the woman added.

The pregnant woman has been thrown out of the house and the Ashraf and his mother have agreed to accept her only if she brings Rs 17.5 lakhs and brings four non-Muslim girls for conversion to Islam.
Not able to meet their demand the woman had to give birth someplace else.