By Shinjinee Majumder

A notice allegedly issued by the Bangladesh Jamiyat Ahl-Al-Hadith purportedly announcing rates for converting Hindu women into Islam is circulating widely on social media. Several Indian Right Wing users have shared the notice, which is in Bengali.

Verified Right Wing X (Twitter) account @_treeni shared screenshots of the notice, including one with an English translation. According to the notice, the rate for converting a Brahmin woman is 3 lakh Taka, an Indian Bengali woman is 2 lakh Taka, a ‘Namashudra’ (scheduled caste) woman is 50,000 Taka and an entire family is 5 lakh Taka. The user also wrote that the “Bangladesh Cyber Team hacked a Facebook page run by Islamists of Bangladesh” and exposed a “sinister Islamist plan.” (Archive)

The tweet was later deleted.

The same notice was shared with the same claim by another Right Wing user @jpsin1, who is followed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (Archive)

https://twitter.com/jpsin1/status/1775454659626566110?t=W-x_74hTcTmW5Y8oJbcVFQ&s=19

Verified user @atsshow7 tweeted also tweeted the same notice. “By feeding you the bhaang of brotherhood, your downfall is being orchestrated, and you’re unaware of it. (Now recognize those who are opposing CAA in India)”, he wrote. (Archive)

Several other users shared the purported notice, amplifying the viral claim. (Archives- 1, 2, 3)

Fact Check

Upon a closer look at the notice, we observed that the date of the notice was February 6, 2022.

On the official page of Bangladesh Jamiyat Ahl-Al-Hadith, we screened through all the posts. We found that while nothing had been uploaded to the website on February 6, two notices had been posted on February 7, both of which were dated February 6. One of them matched the reference number on the viral image.

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