For decades, the Indian system has carried passengers who mastered one skill perfectly: extracting benefits while preaching virtue. The latest name to surface that fits that pattern neatly is of Maulana Shamsul Huda Khan.
Once a government-aided madrasa teacher in Uttar Pradesh, he is now a British citizen living comfortably in the UK. However, he stands accused of turning religious education into a personal revenue model. The ED’s PMLA case reveals how this “peaceful” Madrasa teacher defrauded the system while having links with Pakistan’s ISS. This origin story’s peeled-back layers read less like faith and more like everyday “peaceful” fraud.
Madrasa Salary, British Passport, Zero Attendance
Shamsul Huda Khan was appointed as an assistant teacher in a government-aided madrasa in 1984. Nothing unusual there – until 2013, when he acquired British citizenship and relocated to the United Kingdom. One would assume that “peaceful” Shamsul shall stop drawing a salary from the Indian exchequer as a madrasa teacher. However, that would mean honesty – something “peacefuls” severely lack!
According to investigators, Khan allegedly continued to receive a government salary between 2013 and 2017 while living abroad, teaching no students, and holding a foreign passport.
In simple terms, a UK citizen allegedly stayed on India’s payroll for four years without turning up to work. The system paid. No one asked questions. And the madrasa ecosystem carried on as if this were normal. Eventually, the UP ATS did ask questions. Their FIR triggered the ED’s probe under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, leading to scrutiny of Khan’s finances, travel history, and institutional footprint. What emerged was not just absenteeism and cheating the system.
“Peaceful” Shamsul’s past has more than just the average “peaceful” hint of an anti-national agenda – his crimes run into crores and more with an atankistani link!
₹33 Crore, Foreign Funds, and the Madrasa Pipeline
The ED is now examining assets of “peaceful” Shamsul worth over ₹30–33 crore!!! The money is spread across more than a dozen properties and routed through seven to eight Indian bank accounts. Over the past two decades, madrasa employee Khan allegedly travelled extensively, collecting funds from foreign individuals and organisations and channelling them into India. However, all of this money came through unauthorised routes – often in the name of madrasa education.
Investigators allege that his NGO, the Raza Foundation, acted as a conduit between overseas donors and Indian religious institutions, bypassing legal frameworks governing foreign contributions.
While on government payroll, “peaceful” Shamsul established madrasas in Azamgarh and Sant Kabir Nagar. Both these places have already lost state recognition, and his NGO registration has been cancelled. However, apart from funding and establishing these places, the madrasa teacher stands accused of alleged ideological and operational links to Pakistan.
The probe has flagged Khan’s frequent travel to Pakistan, contacts with radical clerics, links to Pakistan-based groups like Dawat-e-Islami, and sustained engagement with individuals in Jammu and Kashmir via digital platforms.
The allegation is not just financial wrongdoing, but the use of the madrasa network as both a funding channel and an influence pipeline.
This is not a case about religion. It is about a man who allegedly exploited the Indian state, religious sentiment, and institutional blind spots – while enjoying the protections of a foreign passport. A madrasa teacher in name, “peaceful” Shamsul, was a globe-trotting fund manager in practice.
The ED’s case now asks a question the system avoided for years: how many such “teachers” were never really teaching at all?
