LUCKNOW, Nov. 6 -- The Uttar Pradesh Madrasa Education Board has initiated proceedings to derecognise a madrasa in Sant Kabir Nagar district run by cleric Shamsul Huda Khan, accused of raising funds from foreign sources and promoting "Islamisation" in India. Khan, a former assistant teacher at a government-aided madrasa in Azamgarh, continued to receive government salary and pension for years even after acquiring British citizenship, revealed a probe by UP Police's Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS).

Khan, a native of Deoria Lala village in Sant Kabir Nagar, was appointed as an assistant teacher on July 12, 1984, at Madrasa Darul Uloom Ahle Sunnat Ashrafia, Mubarakpur, Azamgarh, as per the ATS probe.

He reportedly moved to Britain in 2007 and a...