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AP to seek Interpol aid
against Deendar Anjuman

Eluru Range Deputy Inspector-General of Police P Chandrasekhara Reddy told UNI that decoding of the computer floppies was underway. It was likely to provide more information of the organisations' role with their Pakistani controller via internet.

Forty-two of 54 Deendar Anjuman activists arrested so far in connection with the blasts were from Andhra Pradesh, while the rest were from Karnataka.

The Andhra Pradesh Crime Branch had filed a charge-sheet. ''We shall seek the cooperation of Interpol after completion of the decoding process,'' Reddy added.

Official sources said the Hyderabad-headquartered Deendar Anjuman, was a fanatic Muslim sect, with its Pakistani union president allegedly responsible for the recent bomb blasts in places of worship.

The objective of the sect was to ''Islamise India through proselytisation and preaching''. But unlike other fanatic Muslim organisations it had chosen a unique method of propagating Islam by using scriptures, popular beliefs, mythology and prophesies of other religions, the sources added.

Founded in 1924 at Gadag in Karnataka by Siddique Hussain, the preachers of Deendar Anjuman in furtherance of achieving their objective, study the scriptures of other religions and point out the lacunae and contradictions in them to impress upon the people that ''Islam is the only complete religion in the universe''.

The sources said that it has targeted influential sections of Hindu society like lingayats and underprivileged sections like dalits and converted some of them to Islam.

Born at Balampet in Gulbarga district in the erstwhile Nizam state, 40-year-old Siddque Hussain, an opthamologist, claimed that he got a divine revelation and he was the incarnation of Chanabeswar, the founder of the lingayat sect.

He later assumed the name of Hazrat Moulana Deendar Chanbasweshwar Oibla to influence lingayats towards Islam, who at that time were against the dominance of upper castes. To avoid any adverse reaction with his assumed name, Hussain propounded a theory that ''lingayats were descendants of Arabs''.

The Deendar Anjuman preaches that all the religions in the world except Islam are 'incomplete' and Mohammed was the last and final prophet for entire humanity. Salvation to mankind is only in Islam and for this they must convert into Islam and read Kalma, the organisation claimed, official sources said.

UNI

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