After Police in Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras district registered dozens of FIRs against the people for protesting over the “gang-rape and murder of a young woman by four upper-caste Hindu men, the Enforcement Directorate has said that it had found evidence of at least Rs 100 crore that was sent to UP state to trigger caste and communal conflict in the name of seeking justice for the victim.
Quoting sources, a report by Times of India, said that out of the 100 crore Rs 50 crore came from Mauritius.
ED officials are tracking some suspects and dissecting data pertaining to the blacklisted website “Justice for Hathras” to ascertain whether it was used as a gateway for foreign funding, the report said.
Accounts to which money was transferred are also being scanned. The ED is planning to start a case under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act against the admins of the website.
Rs 100 Crore sent from abroad to fund violence in Hathras, says ED over ‘gang-rape, murder’ of Dalit woman.
After Police in Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras district registered dozens of FIRs against the people for protesting over the “gang-rape and murder of a young woman by four upper-caste Hindu men, the Enforcement Directorate has said that it had found evidence of at least Rs 100 crore that was sent to UP state to trigger caste and communal conflict in the name of seeking justice for the victim.
Quoting sources, a report by Times of India, said that out of the 100 crore Rs 50 crore came from Mauritius.
ED officials are tracking some suspects and dissecting data pertaining to the blacklisted website “Justice for Hathras” to ascertain whether it was used as a gateway for foreign funding, the report said.
Accounts to which money was transferred are also being scanned. The ED is planning to start a case under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act against the admins of the website.
Earlier on Monday, UP CM Yogi Adityanath had said that “a host of organisations” were using foreign funding to hatch conspiracies to derail his government’s development agenda “by stoking caste conflicts”.
However, the Chief Minister of the state had not taken the name of any organisation or person.
The ED is also likely to conduct an inquiry from domain servers, the details of the money received and its utilisation. The ED probe may also cover the ultimate beneficiaries of the funds received by the website.
On September 14, in Hathras a 19-year-old Dalit woman was abducted by a gang of four upper-caste Hindu men from the village’s Thakur community from the nearby agricultural field where she had gone for grass cutting.
Free Press Kashmir