Jammu, July 8 -- Lucknow- In what appears to be one of the most alarming exposures of an organized religious conversion racket in recent times, the Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) arrested 70-year-old Jamaluddin alias Chhangur Baba, and his wife, from Balrampur on Saturday. The couple is accused of running a deep-rooted, foreign-funded Islamist conversion network across several districts in Uttar Pradesh, with disturbing national and international implications.

Originally from Mumbai, Jamaluddin (born Ghanshyam Rohera), his wife Neetu (now Nasreen), and their daughter Samale (now Sabiha) are said to have converted to Islam in Dubai in 2015. They then returned to India and settled near the Chand Auliya Dargah in Balrampur, posing...