Zakir Naik's NGO banned for 5 years

November 15, 2016 20:07

The Cabinet has declared controversial preacher Zakir Naik's NGO, Islamic Research Foundation as 'unlawful' under Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and banned for five years.

Earlier, Naiks NGO was banned from receiving foreign funds directly and the Union home ministry asked the Reserve Bank of India to seek prior permission from it before releasing any money to the NGO.

Naik was accused of radicalising and attracting youths for terror acts.

Naik has come under the scanner of the security agencies after Bangladeshi newspaper Daily Star had reported that one of the attackers of the July 1 terror strike in Dhaka, Rohan Imtiaz, ran a propaganda on Facebook last year quoting Naik.

He, in a lecture aired on Peace TV, an international Islamic channel, had reportedly urged all Muslims to be terrorists.

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