Hindustan Times ST (Mumbai)

WHO IS ZAKIR NAIK?

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countries, and was trying to raise money through the sale.

The plea was objected by Naik’s lawyer Amin Solkar, but the court rejected the objection, observing that “at any rate, fugitive accused against whom nonbailabl­e TV evangelist Zakir Naik’s speeches are aired on his channel Peace TV, which he launched in 2006 and has since been banned in India

Naik launched Peace TV Urdu in 2009 and Peace TV Bangla in April 2011

He was in the spotlight after a Bangladesh newspaper reported in 2016 that two of the six terrorists who killed 20 people in an upscale

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warrants is pending and is also declared as proclaimed offender, cannot claim rights to be heard though his advocate”.

NIA registered a case against Naik a day after his organisati­on, the Islamic Research café in Dhaka on July 1 were allegedly influenced by his sermons

Naik was declared as proclaimed offender on June 15, 2017

The NIA alleged that Naik was promoting enmity between different religious groups in India through his public speeches and lectures on various platforms and inciting Muslim youth and terrorists in India and abroad to commit unlawful activities and terror acts Foundation (IRF), was declared “unlawful” by the government in November 2016.

Naik was accused of inciting youth to take up terror activities by the government.

The NIA had alleged: “Naik has been promoting enmity between different religious groups in India through his public speeches and lectures on various platforms and inciting Muslim youth and terrorist in India and abroad to commit unlawful activities and terror acts.”

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