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FCRA licence to Naik's NGO: 4 MHA officials suspended for 'irregularities'

Four officials of the Home Ministry were tonight suspended for allegedly facilitating the renewal of FCRA licence of an NGO promoted by Islamic preacher Zakir Naik, against whom several probes are going on. The officials, including two Under Secretaries and one Section Officer, were suspended after the Home Ministry found that Naik's NGO Islamic Research Foundation's FCRA licence was renewed recently despite several ongoing probes, including one by it. "The action against two Under Secretaries and one Section Officer was due to their negligence in clearing the renewal while a case is still pending," Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju tweeted. In another tweet, Rijiju said the Home Ministry was very clear that there should be smooth process of registration or renewal of FCRA licence but not when there is a case pending. "We had made the process of FCRA renewal online," he tweeted. Mumbai Police is also probing allegations against Naik. Naik is accused of radicalisation of youths into terror and receiving foreign funds and spending such funds in luring youths into radical views. He came under the scanner of the security agencies after Bangladeshi newspaper 'Daily Star' reported that one of the attackers of the July 1 terror strike in Dhaka, Rohan Imtiaz, ran a propaganda on Facebook last year quoting Naik.
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