Two former members of trust get three years in jail in FCRA case

According to sources, the CBI had registered a case against the Samast Muslim Khalifa Sunnatwal Jamat on January 17, 2012, alleging that the “trust was not registered under the FCRA Act”. The CBI had alleged that Sunnatwal Jamat “violated the provisions of the Act, on receiving a contribution of Rs 1.12 crore without having prior permission from the Government of India, during the period from 1998 to 2010-211 at different time intervals”.

According to the case registered, the Sunnatwal Jamat was “in contravention of Section 11 of FCRA and was punishable under Section 35 of the Act”. During the probe, the documents and vouchers produced by Sunnatwal Jamat could not justify the amount received by them, said sources quoting the case registered. After the investigation was completed, the CBI filed a chargesheet on 20 September 2017 against the accused. After the trial, the court found both accused guilty based on statements of witnesses and documentary evidence and sentenced them to three-year imprisonment.