Nuh, Haryana: On 25 August, a family of five living in a village of Mewat quietly locked their home in dead of the night and vanished. Chetram, his wife Rekha, and their three children – two sons and a daughter – left without informing their next-door neighbour.
That neighbour was none other than Chetram’s younger brother, Satbir, whose wife is also Rekha’s first cousin.
The next morning, Satbir noticed the locked house and grew uneasy. If someone had fallen ill, why had Chetram not told him? After all, they were family.
His son Gaurav then recalled seeing them leave, and Chetram’s son Shivam had told him that the family was “moving to Gurgaon”.
Satbir was stunned – such a major decision, and yet his brother had not shared it with him?
The Shocking Truth about Chetram
Both brothers belong to Marora village in Nuh district of Haryana – the heart of the notorious Mewat region.
Within hours, Satbir discovered the reality from other villagers: Chetram and his family had converted to Islam and shifted to an undisclosed location, suspected to be the all-Muslim village of Aterna, where Chetram frequently worked.
For a Hindu like Satbir, venturing into Aterna was impossible. Instead, he approached his Hindu community leaders.
Before them, Satbir pleaded that the conversion of his brother must be reversed, saying it had brought unbearable shame upon his family. He also told them about the taunts he was being subjected to from Muslims in the area – they were sending him text messages and videos on how they “earned five more members into their fold”.
The above account was shared by Satbir to Rashtra Jyoti editor Swati Goel Sharma on her visit to Marora village on 31 August, 2025.
The Context: Mewat’s Communal Cauldron
The region of Mewat spans Haryana, Rajasthan and parts of Uttar Pradesh. Its dominant community, the Meo jaati, was Hindu for centuries but was gradually Islamised.
Those Meos who converted came to be known as Mewati. Today, the terms Meo and Mewati are interchangeable because the community is wholly Islamised.
For generations, Meos practiced a syncretic culture despite conversion, but proselytising groups like Tablighi Jamaat – banned even in Saudi Arabia for radicalism – systematically radicalised them in the name of Islam.
Now, Mewati gangs are infamous for illegal beef trade, foreign-funded conversion rackets and global cyber fraud networks.
The Police Complaint
Together with his community leaders, Satbir went to Nagina police station. He submitted a written complaint alleging that his brother had been brainwashed or lured with money into conversion. Rashtra Jyoti has accessed this complaint. Based on it, the police registered an FIR and began investigating.
Chetram and his family were later traced and presented before a judicial magistrate to record their statements. Yet, Satbir has not spoken to his brother since the day of his disappearance. Chetram’s phone remains switched off.
Signs of Conversion
While Satbir never saw clear indications of his brother leaning towards Islam, his sister-in-law Rajwati recalled a troubling remark from this Raksha Bandhan: Chetram said he would come for rakhi only if she recited the Kalma. She dismissed it as a tasteless joke, Rajwati told Rashtra Jyoti.
Satbir now reflects on his brother’s prayer habits. Chetram would bow or stand several times a day for prayers. In hindsight, Satbir sees resemblance with Islamic prayer customs, he said.
The Mahapanchayat
On 31 August, the crisis reached a boiling point. Over 1,000 Hindus – majority from scheduled castes – from more than 15 villages gathered for a mahapanchayat in Nuh, held in the premises of ‘Hindu High School’ near the Garib Nath temple.
Chetram and his kin belong to the Koli jaati, which comes under scheduled castes in Haryana.
Rashtra Jyoti editor Swati Goel Sharma attended and addressed the assembly, warning how Dawah conversion mafias prey upon Hindus, especially Dalits, by frightening them with threats of “dojak ki aag” (hellfire for kaafirs) and coercing them to abandon their faith.
At the gathering, Satbir once again begged the larger Hindu community to help bring his brother back.
Rashtra Jyoti Demands Stronger Probe
Rashtra Jyoti has urged the Haryana government to escalate the investigation to a national counter-terrorism agency.
This demand gains urgency given that in recent years, a major illegal conversion racket run by Maulana Kalim Siddiqui was exposed, with Mewat listed as one of his prime hunting grounds.
Kalim Siddiqui’s Conversion Doctrine
Maulana Kalim Siddiqui, arrested in 2021 by Uttar Pradesh anti-terrorism squad (ATS), has openly declared that his mission is to save humanity from “dojakh ki aag” (hellfire), painting non-Muslims as doomed unless converted to Islam.
In interviews, particularly to Pakistani channels, he chillingly calculated that every second more “kaafirs” were dying without embracing Islam, and that this should “pain” Muslims into relentless conversion.
His Dawah pitch was not one of dialogue but of fear and coercion – frightening Hindus and Sikhs, particularly from scheduled castes, with threats of eternal burning, while presenting the Kalma as the sole escape.
He cited fabricated “miracle cures,” pressured the ill and the elderly, and even recounted how he converted a Sikh woman over the phone by warning her of hellfire.
Siddiqui himself admitted that most converts embraced Islam because of this fear, not conviction.
ATS Findings: Organised Racket with Foreign Funds
The Uttar Pradesh ATS described Siddiqui as the “Khalifa of all Dawah activities,” calling him the kingpin of conversion mafias in India.
Their probe revealed he had converted over five lakh people, focusing heavily on Dalits in Mewat — a region notorious for radicalisation.
The ATS press note detailed how Siddiqui ran a network of trusts and NGOs – including Shah Waliullah Trust (Delhi), Global Peace Centre, Dawat-e-Islam Trust (Mewat), and others – which acted as fronts for illegal conversion drives.
Investigators also exposed a darker side: phone intercepts suggested complicity in women trafficking (particularly targeting upper-caste Hindu girls) and even encouraging violence against non-Muslims who resisted.
Financial probes found massive foreign funding, including crores routed through UK-based Islamic charities, funneled into his operations.
The ATS concluded that Siddiqui’s so-called “humanitarian” work was in fact an industrial-scale machinery of forced and deceitful conversions, backed by international Islamist networks.
Watch this explainer by Rashtra Jyoti:
Also, watch this interview of Satbir at the mahapanchayat by Swati:
