MUMBAI: Zakir Naik, the debatable Islamic preacher who has been dwelling in a foreign country to evade arrest in quite a lot of circumstances in India, on Wednesday termed as baseless reports of his returning to the rustic.
Naik mentioned he would now not go back to India + until he felt "safe from unfair prosecution".
His statement, issued through his spokesman right here, got here amid reports that he was once being deported to India from Malaysia.
Sources in the Ministry of External Affairs in New Delhi, on the other hand, mentioned they had been yet to receive any respectable confirmation from the Malaysian authorities relating to his deportation.
In January, the MEA had made a formal request to Malaysia to deport Naik, wanted by way of India for allegedly inciting children for terror actions through his hate speeches.
Naik, in the statement, mentioned : "The news of my coming to India is totally baseless and false. I have no plans to come to India till I feel safe from unfair prosecution".
The debatable preacher mentioned he would "surely" go back to his "homeland" when he feels "the government will be just and fair."
Naik is going through quite a lot of circumstances, together with for hate speech and money laundering, in India and has been staying in a foreign country to evade arrest.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) had first registered a case towards the 51-year-old underneath anti- terror rules in 2016 for allegedly selling enmity between other non secular teams
The NIA and Mumbai Police, therefore, had additionally performed searches at 10 puts in Mumbai together with residential premises of one of the place of job bearers of the root run by way of Naik.
The basis was once earlier put on limited record by way of the Home Ministry for receiving funds from in a foreign country.
Meanwhile, in an apparent reference to Zakir Naik, senior Congress chief Salman Khurshid these days mentioned the rustic can't afford to have question marks on folks in important positions in public but when there is no culpability of an individual, one must now not be continued to be "hounded".
Khurshid, who's a former Law Minister, mentioned the "sad thing" about Naik was once that he was once now not to be had to the Indian authorities and the system.
He, on the other hand, mentioned, it'll be a just right factor if he returns.
Naik mentioned he would now not go back to India + until he felt "safe from unfair prosecution".
His statement, issued through his spokesman right here, got here amid reports that he was once being deported to India from Malaysia.
Sources in the Ministry of External Affairs in New Delhi, on the other hand, mentioned they had been yet to receive any respectable confirmation from the Malaysian authorities relating to his deportation.
In January, the MEA had made a formal request to Malaysia to deport Naik, wanted by way of India for allegedly inciting children for terror actions through his hate speeches.
Naik, in the statement, mentioned : "The news of my coming to India is totally baseless and false. I have no plans to come to India till I feel safe from unfair prosecution".
The debatable preacher mentioned he would "surely" go back to his "homeland" when he feels "the government will be just and fair."
Naik is going through quite a lot of circumstances, together with for hate speech and money laundering, in India and has been staying in a foreign country to evade arrest.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) had first registered a case towards the 51-year-old underneath anti- terror rules in 2016 for allegedly selling enmity between other non secular teams
The NIA and Mumbai Police, therefore, had additionally performed searches at 10 puts in Mumbai together with residential premises of one of the place of job bearers of the root run by way of Naik.
The basis was once earlier put on limited record by way of the Home Ministry for receiving funds from in a foreign country.
Meanwhile, in an apparent reference to Zakir Naik, senior Congress chief Salman Khurshid these days mentioned the rustic can't afford to have question marks on folks in important positions in public but when there is no culpability of an individual, one must now not be continued to be "hounded".
Khurshid, who's a former Law Minister, mentioned the "sad thing" about Naik was once that he was once now not to be had to the Indian authorities and the system.
He, on the other hand, mentioned, it'll be a just right factor if he returns.
No official confirmation of Zakir Naik's deportation to India, says MEA
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