“Pakistani family living illegally in India with fake Hindu identities: How ‘Sufi’ Mehdi Foundation facilitated illegal immigration, organised fake docs and paid the family”, Opindia, October 2, 2024:
“A 48-year-old Pakistan preacher named Rashid Ali Siddiqui, his wife Ayesha (38) and her parents Hanif Mohammed (73) and Rubina (61) were arrested on the outskirts of Bengaluru by the authorities on 29th September. They acquired fraudulent documents and adopted Hindu names. The accused had been living in Rajapura village under the aliases Shankar Sharma, Asha Rani, Ram Babu Sharma and Rani Sharma, respectively.
They came to Delhi in 2014 and then moved to Bengaluru in 2018. The family lived in Bangladesh’s Dhaka previously. Notably, the name of a Sufi organisation “Mehdi Foundation International” surfaced as the racket was exposed.
Siddiqui had fled to Bangladesh from Pakistan after Sufis were being hounded in the country. He served as a preacher in Bangladesh and the Mehdi Foundation covered his expenses there. He then encountered similar attacks in Bangladesh in 2014 after which he contacted a man named Parvez from the foundation who assisted him and his family to move to India illegally……..”
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