My wife's cousin is currently in prison in India with charges of running an "illegal conversion racket".
The charges have been upgraded to Treason, somehow.
He was shipped up from the South to the North for the show-trial, likely to spur up nationalistic sentiments.
Think Trump, but unfettered in India.
Broader picture: India adopted the ideology Hindutva, its basically part of the far-right wave.
The charges were recently upgraded to Treason. Again, its a show-trial to get safron-wearing Hindutva going nuts.
My wife's cousin and Umar Gautam are from a Southern province called Gujarat, but their trial was shipped far north to a province called Uttar Pradesh. Why? Because that is a strong-house of the Hindutva. It's the equivalent of how the South is Trump country.
https://www.reportwire.in/up-ats-arrests-salahuddin-sheikh-who-used-his-ngo-to-fund-the-conversion-ring-of-umar-gautam/