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According to top intelligence sources, the strategy becomes part of the 40 -year -old conceptual plan prepared by Barelvi and Deobandi Network in Pakistan.
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What intelligence officials have described as a long -term, non -violent campaign of demographic manipulation, Islamist syndicates located in India and abroad have targeted Hindu girls through digital platforms like digital, Instagram, Tinder and Signal, which is using Hindu girls, which is using secret religious indigenization and foreign funds for religious religious conversions.
According to top intelligence sources, the strategy is part of the 40 -year conceptual plan prepared by Pakistan -based Barelvi and Deobandi Network, which is aimed at re -shaping India’s demographic balance.
The Blown: Targeting through technology, grooming and zakat
According to top intelligence sources, this non-violent jihad-sometimes called “soft jihad”-is justified by the circulation of ideological texts such as Gajwa-e-Hind, and includes more psychological and spiritual manipulation than terrorism. Telegram metadata, as analyzed by agencies, reflects the patterns of the UAE and Qatar -linked time area, indicating the participation of foreign handlers for directing the operation from the Gulf.
Young Hindu girls, especially between the ages of 15 and 24, are the primary goals of this operation. Intelligence sources say that these girls often contact the background of ambitious and lower-middle class, with love, career support, or false promises of marriage, through large-scale social media and dating apps. A senior official revealed, “are soft goals that are unsafe for emotional manipulation.”
Once the contact is established, the process begins with religious grooming through the video-many of them promote the idea of the ahead of Anwar al-Avalaki and Zakir Naik as better and indispensable. Top intelligence sources said, “Over time, they create emotional dependence, followed by religious crime, and finally separation from their families,” said by top intelligence sources.
Within 6 to 12 months, changes are reportedly converted into recruitments or contacts, which helps to further expand the network. This cycle, source state, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Bihar are repeated in Tier -2 and Tier -3 cities.
Funding Network: Zakat, Cryptocurrency and NGO Laundering
According to enforcement and intelligence agencies, the financial spinal cord of the syndicate is Route through fake NGOs. Institutions like Ser Welfare Society and Sufia Foundation registered in Delhi, Agra and Lucknow have come under scanner. Top intelligence sources confirmed that these NGOs have been directly linked to the disciples of Chhattisgarh Baba, a major spiritual person who has recently been investigated for conversion-linked financial fraud.
In the Gulf, money is looted through the cryptocurrency wallet cooperative bank accounts, UPI ID and even Cryptocurrency wallet. Sources indicate that the funds are rooted through the hawala network via Nepal, Bangladesh and Dubai. Intelligence sources said, “To avoid detection under FCRA (Foreign Contribution Regulation Act), most donations are divided into installments under tranch 10 lakhs.”
In Faizabad, a forensic audit of the Axis Bank account of the sixangur Baba was deposited 80 lakh rupees in a single month, as foreign remittances were immediately after reaching these NGOs. In a case in Balrampur, Rs 35 crore was reportedly rooted through NGOs who claimed to work in education and welfare, top sources said.
In another case, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) found that Rs 7 crore was transferred through UPI IDs connected to the Dargah network in Agra, Mathura, Bareilly and Firozabad, which was used to fund women recruitments.
Seminar, Shrine and Sufis: The Radical Industration Web
Once the initial trust is established, the formulas explain, girls are lured in religious seminars located in places like Kerala and Hyderabad, where they undergo complete conversion. Fake ID proof – Aadhaar card and voter ID, such as “Ravi” or “Mohit” – are often used to meet marriages that appear valid on paper, but are contained in deception. According to sources, these grooms are trained operators along with the traveled journey history.
Intelligence sources say that Bhopal Seminary Nexus, including institutions such as Darul Ulm Tazkia, plays a central role in ideological training for boys aged 16 to 22 years. These boys are particularly taught how to mix secretly in secular university complexes. Between 2018 and 2024, a total of ₹ 18.5 crore was transferred to the seminar in Bhopal, a total of ₹ 18.5 crore among the unaccounted dispws.
Meanwhile, the Agra Dargah Syndicate used a Sufi pilgrimage near Rawatpara to conduct the weekly “healing” sessions, which encouraged Hindu women towards Islam, the top sources said. The clerics were also caught offering jobs and marriage under fake Hindu surnames. These operations often had a “Bollywood-style” romance story, meaning to ensure the goals emotionally.
In April 2025, two lawyers and a sub-registrar were arrested for creating an agreement related to adaptation-part of a racket involving 34 cases in Reli and Shahjahanpur.
Digital toolkit and cross-state machinery
Source states that the syndicate operates through a multi-state toolkit with a structured digital and physical network. A secret telegram group called “Zayatun Council” with over 2,500 members was discovered for the coordination of cross -border operations between Kerala and West Bengal. The group discussed recruitment targets, ideological materials and funding logistics.
Kerala Madrasa web, as intelligence sources describe it, serves as a safhouse and radical hub. New converted women are provided with new IDs and trained in Dawa-based digital promotion. They are then sent back to social media locations as gylologists.
Earlier, the NIA investigation revealed that more than 60 telegram and signal groups operated by handlers located in Kerala were involved in efforts to replace women and promote global Islamist propagation.
One of the most worrying conclusions of top intelligence agencies is that more than 300 girls from SC, ST, and OBC Hindu background have already been smuggled into such a marriage between 2018 and 2024. Many later moved to southern India under the guise of religious education.
Major matters
Between 2018 and 2024, intelligence agencies tracked seminars in Bhopal and Kerala, for ideological training of young men. These seminars including Darul Ulm Tazkia received Rs 18.5 crore during this period from Doha and Sharjah during this period. According to top intelligence sources, these funds were used to train boys between the age of 16–22 to operate secretly in universities and secular complexes.
In 2023, in a major crack, the NIA exposed a radical telegram module in Kerala during a multi-state raid. This module, according to intelligence reports, coordinates online grooming and conversion operations, which targets Hindu girls, mostly through encrypted platforms such as telegram and signal.
In 2024, the authorities exposed a zakat-funded scholarship scam in Malappuram, Kerala. These scholarships were allegedly being used to encourage religious adaptations of Hindu women under the guise of education. Intelligence sources said the money trail gave birth to the Gulf-Linked NGO, whose FCRA’s position was either passive or under investigation.
In 2025, in the latest raids in Balrampur and Agra, Ed and Intelligence agencies busted a fake ID racket, where Aadhaar and voter cards were forged in Hindu names for the purpose of convenience of marriage and conversion. Intelligence sources confirmed that these works included caste-based incentives to take advantage of socio-economic mistake lines between SC, ST and OBC Hindu communities.
A hidden front in ideological war
According to top intelligence sources, the scale of this non-violent jihad campaign and a combination of sophistication, emotional manipulation, a combination of foreign money and technical oblivion-mark it as one of the most organized soft threats for internal demographic security of India.
This especially makes difficult to track the absence of physical violence and camouflage of social service fronts. The use of legitimate platforms such as telegram, tinder, signal and even educational institutions gives the presence of general condition.
Top intelligence agencies continue to monitor these networks and have allegedly shared several dosiers with central and state enforcement bodies. According to officials, the danger is no longer abstract – it is changing, developing India’s social taunts, developing, and quietly.
Group Editor, Investigation and Security Affairs, Network 18
Group Editor, Investigation and Security Affairs, Network 18
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