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”.
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”. (Representational Image) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court of Ahmedabad convicted two former members of a Navsari-based Trust — Samast Muslim Khalifa Sunnatwal Jamat — and awarded them three years in jail in connection with a case under the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA), said officials familiar with the matter.
Former Sunnatwal Jamat president Yusuf Shaikh and former secretary Fakir Mohammad Jamalbhai Shaikh, who have been accused of criminal conspiracy, were also slapped with a total fine of Rs 60,000.
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”.
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