UP STF raids Delhi places of work of PFI, its pupil wing

Image Source : FILE PHOTO/ PTI UP STF raids Delhi places of work of PFI, its pupil wing
The Uttar Pradesh police’s Special Task Force Sunday raided the Delhi places of work of Popular Front of India and its pupil wing CFI, officers stated, days after a CFI chief was despatched to five-day police custody for allegedly funding PFI members to create unrest after the Hathras gangrape incident.
On February 17, a courtroom in Mathura had despatched PFI’s pupil wing chief Rauf Shareef to five-day police custody.
Uttar Pradesh STF Inspector General Amitabh Yash instructed reporters, “A probe by the STF is underway in a case registered in Mant police station of Mathura. Based on information retrieved during interrogation, search and seizure are being done in the offices of PFI and CFI located in Delhi, after obtaining search warrant from court.”
Shareef had been introduced from Ernakulam jail in Kerala the place he was lodged after being arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in December in a cash laundering case.

In a remand report submitted within the courtroom in Kerala, the ED had alleged that Shareef, who’s the chief of Campus Front of India (CFI), had funded the journey of Sidhique Kappan, a Delhi-based Kerala journalist, and three different alleged PFI activists to Hathras in Uttar Pradesh, the place a Dalit girl died after being allegedly gang-raped.
Kappan and the three others had been arrested by the Uttar Pradesh police in October whereas they had been on their approach to Hathras.
It was alleged they’d “ulterior motives of disturbing social harmony and inciting communal riots” and had been charged with severe offenses together with sedition.
The Uttar Pradesh authorities has been demanding a ban on the Popular Front of India (PFI), accusing it of inciting riots within the state throughout the protests towards the Citizenship Amendment Act. 
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