₹150 crore transaction network exposed for setting up madarasas near India–Nepal border

• Funds transferred digitally via UPI from abroad and South India

• Suspicious accounts show transactions worth crores

• Plot to alter religious demographics

Lakshmanpuri (Uttar Pradesh) – Over the past two to three years, repeated revelations have emerged of a conspiracy to construct mosques and madrasas near the India–Nepal border and carry out religious conversions of Hindus through them. Now, it has been unearthed that crores of rupees are being routed for this purpose from South India and abroad. Importantly, these funds are not in cash but are being sent via digital means through the UPI system. This has been disclosed in a confidential report by the Income Tax Department submitted to the Ministry of Home Affairs.

Other key findings presented in the report:

1. This conspiracy to alter the religious demographic balance in Indian districts along the Nepal border has been ongoing for over a decade.

2. Following intelligence that ₹2,000 notes were being illegally exchanged in border areas such as Raxaul, Rupaidiha and Badni, the Income Tax Department became alert and began conducting raids.

3. On examining bank accounts, transactions worth crores were found in certain suspicious accounts via UPI. One Muslim individual’s account had ₹12 crore deposited from an organisation in Tamil Nadu. Overall, concrete evidence has been found of financial assistance totalling an estimated ₹150 crore from South India and abroad. These funds were used for conversions, constructing mosques and madrasas, and erecting mazars (tombs of Islamic saints or fakirs).

4. A recently arrested individual named Changur Baba, also from the same region, was previously revealed to have received funds from abroad.

5. The report also includes detailed information on the increase in Muslim population in the districts near the Nepal border, including Shravasti, Bahraich, Balrampur and Siddharthnagar. In some villages, Muslim population has surged while the Hindu population has declined.

Editorial Perspective

While such massive financial misconduct is taking place, one cannot help but question whether not only the authorities but even banks are in deep slumber. This entire matter must be investigated. Those responsible must be held accountable, dismissed from service, their properties seized and sentenced to life imprisonment. Only then will such unpardonable negligence be curbed.