ATS officials said Nazim took advantage of his desire for work by inviting him to play an online game of “carrom”.
UPDATE – Tuesday, July 4th at 10:25am
Lucknow: Three were arrested by the Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorist Squad (UP ATS) for using an online gaming application to force religious conversions.
Police said the three accused, Nazim Hassan, Sadiq and Azar Malik, were arrested on Monday. This is the second case where online games are used as bait to lure the target into conversion.
In Ghaziabad last month, a minor was reportedly lured to convert to Christianity through a game. ATS Additional Director General Naveen Arora said the accused Nazim Hasan had allegedly converted his client Somdutt’s son Gaurav.
“Nazim often gave him some medicine during his visits at Somdut’s house and got in touch with his son Gauraf, who has passed class 12 and is busy looking for a part-time job,” Arora said.
ATS officials said Nazim took advantage of his desire for work by inviting him to play an online game of “carrom”. “He was asked to play online with a stranger and lost at first.
Later, he was asked to “recite the name of Allah” and recite some verses from the Qur’an, and this time he won. Later, Nazim brainwashed him into saying that it was Allah’s wish for him to win,” an ATS official said.
This went on for a month until a woman who claimed to be from an online company called Gaurav and offered him a job in Bangalore based on his performance in online games. Gaurav’s trip to Bengaluru was sponsored by Nazim’s aides Sadiq and Azhar Malik, ATS officials said.
