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Online anti-terror platform Agniveer

accuses PayUmoney of links with
Islamic preacher Zakir Naik

An online anti-terror platform -- Agniveer -- accused popular payment gateway

PayUmoney of having links with controversial Islamic preacher Zakir Naik. They told
IndiaToday.in that the of ce of the prime minister and National Investigation Agency
have been informed about the same.
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1 Agniveer accuses
PayUmoney of links
with Islamic preacher
Zakir Naik.
2 Donors informed
Agniveer of getting
calls from PayUmoney
asking to stop funding.
3 Agniveer has intimated
the PMO, Home
Ministry and the NIA
about the matter.

Agniveer, an online anti-terror platform, has accused

PayUmoney of having suspicious links with Zakir Naik.
Naik, a controversial Islamic preacher, a doctor by profession,
is the founder and president of the Islamic Research
foundation. Often accused of spreading hatred in his
speeches, Naik is a tele-evalengist who even owns a TV
channel called Peace TV.
Agniveer, an organisation that gives opinions on social
equality, anti-terror, and Hinduism, worked actively with
Anti-Terror Squad (ATS) in exposing several terrorists.

Also read: Zakir Naik's organisation IRF banned for 5 years

Agniveer uses PayUmoney as the website payment gateway to receive funds from their
supporters. When some donors informed Agniveer that they got calls from PayUmoney
asking them to cancel their payments, the organisation conducted an investigation. They
realised that many payments were getting cancelled and were blocked by the payment
service provider.
One of Agniveer's wellwishers informed that within 15 minutes of making a donation to the
organisation, the payment was blocked and someone claiming to be from PayUmoney
called and asked to not fund Agniveer. The fellow also said that Agniveer has written

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According to Dr. Vashi Sharma, the president of Agniveer, representatives from PayU
money called few more of their supporters to convince them to stop funding the anti-terror
organisation as they exposed Zakir Naik.
The president of Agniveer, Dr Vashi Sharma, told IndiaToday.in that a few more of their
supporters got calls from people claiming to be PayUmoney representatives, trying to
convince them to stop funding Agniveer as they exposed Zakir Naik.
Sharma said that PayUmoney, despite blocking incoming payments, charged for their
services. On contacting PayUmoney for an explanation, the payment gateway rm informed
they found content on Agniveer website controversial and that's the reason behind blocking
incoming payments. Banned in the UK and Canada, Naik has been accused of being a role
model for many terrorists who claimed to be followers of the preacher. The 2016 Dhaka
attacks were also supposedly carried out Zakir Naik's followers.
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The government banned Naik's Islamic Research Foundation under UAPA (Unlawful
Activities Prevention Act) and as Zakir Naik is absconding, Agniveer said that the terror
links may be deeper.
Agniveer claimed that there might be a few Zakir Naik sympathisers working with
PayUmoney, trying to push their personal agenda in the name of PayUmoney. There can be
no other explanation why a payment gateway would make dubious calls to people asking
them to not pay a certain organisation.

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Post demonetisation, the terror- nancing has been affected deeply, so it could be a
desperate attempt by terrorists to sabotage funding received by anti-terror platforms, said
Agniveer.
The anti-terror platform said they have intimated the PMO, Home Ministry and the National
Investigation Agency (NIA) and sought an investigation as it could be a case of terrornance linkages. The organisation is willing to cooperate with government agencies to
resolve this matter.
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Agniveer thinks this reason half-baked because an extensive review of the Agniveer
website, that took 15 days, was carried out before PayUmoney agreed to come onboard.

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Agniveer said that PayUmoney cannot contact the patrons directly even if they nd the
content on the website controversial. PayUmoney could have blocked their services on the
whole instead of blocking the payments. The complainants also said they were given a
con rmation that the transactions have been processed, but PayUmoney said they never
received the payments.
Agniveer couldn't get a satisfactory explanation from the CEO of PayUmoney either.
Agniveer's account was completely blocked later, and on warning them of serious legal
actions, PayYmoney advised Agniveer not to use their services. PayUmoney also informed
that they would not comment on whether the amount will be held or released.

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