Online Gaming Used for Alleged Conversion to Islam, Accused Arrested and Appearing in Court.

A 23-year-old man named Shahnawaz Maksood Khan has been arrested for allegedly converting children into Islam through online games. He was arrested from Alibaug and will be produced before a Ghaziabad court within three days. The Uttar Pradesh Police uncovered an alleged conversion racket in which teenagers were being targeted through an online gaming application. The accused and the cleric of a mosque in Ghaziabad were booked under the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Act based on a complaint. The government is already working on a framework to ban such games.