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  • Bajrang Dal on rampage in MP over Cong linking outfit to PFI

    Express News Service

    BHOPAL:  Opposition to Congress’ Karnataka assembly poll manifesto likening Bajrang Dal to the proscribed Popular Front of India (PFI) and promising to ban it if voted to power inside the southern state, turned violent in BJP-ruled Madhya Pradesh’s Jabalpur on Thursday.

    In neighbouring Chhattisgarh, which is dominated by the Congress, CM Bhupesh Baghel warned Bajrang Dal to not present unruly behaviour and keep away from violence. “Cadres of Bajrang Dal did create some disturbances and we restrained them. Violence in the name of Bajrang Bali is unacceptable. If required, we might think of banning the outfit,” he said.

    In MP, opposing the Congress’s Karnataka poll manifesto, a gaggle of Bajrang Dal males led by native unit head Sumit Thakur stormed proper right into a multi-storeyed developing housing the Jabalpur District Congress Committee office and ransacked property there.

    Local Congress employees alleged that Bajrang Dal males stormed into the developing and attacked the developing’s guard, sooner than damaging the property there, along with {the electrical} power system put in there.
    The incident occurred sooner than the meeting of Jabalpur Congress Committee was to be held inside the celebration office.

    The films of the incident confirmed Bajrang Dal males, holding saffron flags and shouting slogans storming into the developing and damaging the fibre sheds, the Congress placard bearing former celebration president Sonia Gandhi’s picture and likewise hurling stones on the glass residence home windows of the celebration office.

    Former Jabalpur Congress chief Dinesh Yadav alleged that 100 Bajrang Dal males attacked the Congress office after injuring the chowkidar. “If they think we’re going to get scared by this, then they are mistaken. Will CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan act against these men, by bulldozing their houses?”

     “An FIR has been lodged at the Lordganj police station against Bajrang Dal men,” circle SP (CSP-Jabalpur Kotwali) Prabhat Shukla suggested this newspaper. “The unfortunate part of the incident is that cops present in the area didn’t act. If the CM has faith in democracy, then he should take strict action against the wrongdoers and ensure that such incidents aren’t repeated in MP,” state Congress chief Kamal Nath tweeted.

    How Row erupted
    In the run-up to the Karnataka Assembly polls, the Congress on Tuesday likened Bajrang Dal to the now-banned Popular Front of India and said the celebration was devoted to taking decisive movement, along with imposing a ban, on outfits spreading hatred amongst communities. 

    BHOPAL:  Opposition to Congress’ Karnataka assembly poll manifesto likening Bajrang Dal to the proscribed Popular Front of India (PFI) and promising to ban it if voted to power inside the southern state, turned violent in BJP-ruled Madhya Pradesh’s Jabalpur on Thursday.

    In neighbouring Chhattisgarh, which is dominated by the Congress, CM Bhupesh Baghel warned Bajrang Dal to not present unruly behaviour and keep away from violence. “Cadres of Bajrang Dal did create some disturbances and we restrained them. Violence in the name of Bajrang Bali is unacceptable. If required, we might think of banning the outfit,” he said.

    In MP, opposing the Congress’s Karnataka poll manifesto, a gaggle of Bajrang Dal males led by native unit head Sumit Thakur stormed proper right into a multi-storeyed developing housing the Jabalpur District Congress Committee office and ransacked property there.googletag.cmd.push(function() googletag.present(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    Local Congress employees alleged that Bajrang Dal males stormed into the developing and attacked the developing’s guard, sooner than damaging the property there, along with {the electrical} power system put in there.
    The incident occurred sooner than the meeting of Jabalpur Congress Committee was to be held inside the celebration office.

    The films of the incident confirmed Bajrang Dal males, holding saffron flags and shouting slogans storming into the developing and damaging the fibre sheds, the Congress placard bearing former celebration president Sonia Gandhi’s picture and likewise hurling stones on the glass residence home windows of the celebration office.

    Former Jabalpur Congress chief Dinesh Yadav alleged that 100 Bajrang Dal males attacked the Congress office after injuring the chowkidar. “If they think we’re going to get scared by this, then they are mistaken. Will CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan act against these men, by bulldozing their houses?”

     “An FIR has been lodged at the Lordganj police station against Bajrang Dal men,” circle SP (CSP-Jabalpur Kotwali) Prabhat Shukla suggested this newspaper. “The unfortunate part of the incident is that cops present in the area didn’t act. If the CM has faith in democracy, then he should take strict action against the wrongdoers and ensure that such incidents aren’t repeated in MP,” state Congress chief Kamal Nath tweeted.

    How Row erupted
    In the run-up to the Karnataka Assembly polls, the Congress on Tuesday likened Bajrang Dal to the now-banned Popular Front of India and said the celebration was devoted to taking decisive movement, along with imposing a ban, on outfits spreading hatred amongst communities. 

  • NIA raids premises of 16 PFI suspects all through UP, Bihar, Goa, Punjab

    Express News Service

    NEW DELHI:  In another multi-state crackdown, the National Investigation Agency on Tuesday carried out searches at 16 locations in 4 states, along with Goa, in a 2022 anti-India jail conspiracy case in Bihar involving people associated to the banned Popular Front of India (PFI).

    According to NIA sources, the corporate sleuths raided the premises of 16 suspected people at quite a lot of locations in Siwan, Sheohar, Muzaffarpur, Darbhanga, Katihar, Araria, Purnea and East Champaran districts in Bihar, South Goa district in Goa, Rampur and Bhadohi districts in UP and Ludhiana district in Punjab.

    A hoard of digital devices, along with monetary establishment transactions particulars, have been seized all through the searches, carried out at the premises of PFI suspects in a case referring to unlawful actions. Incriminating paperwork related to PFI and Indian foreign exchange of the face value of Rs 1,00,000 have been moreover seized.

    Thirteen people have been arrested to date inside the case related to teaching of PFI cadre in Phulwarisharif in  Patna given that first spherical of raids carried out on July 6-7, 2022. A whole of 60 locations have to date been regarded for gathering credible proof inside the case, which was initially registered on July 12,  2022 at PS Phulwarisharif, District Patna, Bihar. The case was later re-registered by the NIA on July 22. The firm filed a price sheet in direction of 4 accused people on January 7 this 12 months.

    An NIA spokesperson acknowledged that investigations have revealed the accused, along with completely different suspects, have been working from the rented premises in Phulwarisharif for ending up jail actions on behalf of PFI. They moreover labored as bodily education trainers for recruiting PFI cadres. It might be suspected that even after the ban on PFI by the federal authorities, its cadres continued to be involved in promoting the outfit’s ideology and its nefarious, unlawful and anti-national actions. 

    Case pertains to teaching of PFI cadres
    Investigations have revealed the accused, along with completely different suspects, have been working from the rented premises in Phulwarisharif for ending up jail actions on behalf of PFI. They moreover labored as bodily education trainers for recruiting PFI cadres

    NEW DELHI:  In another multi-state crackdown, the National Investigation Agency on Tuesday carried out searches at 16 locations in 4 states, along with Goa, in a 2022 anti-India jail conspiracy case in Bihar involving people associated to the banned Popular Front of India (PFI).

    According to NIA sources, the corporate sleuths raided the premises of 16 suspected people at quite a lot of locations in Siwan, Sheohar, Muzaffarpur, Darbhanga, Katihar, Araria, Purnea and East Champaran districts in Bihar, South Goa district in Goa, Rampur and Bhadohi districts in UP and Ludhiana district in Punjab.

    A hoard of digital devices, along with monetary establishment transactions particulars, have been seized all through the searches, carried out at the premises of PFI suspects in a case referring to unlawful actions. Incriminating paperwork related to PFI and Indian foreign exchange of the face value of Rs 1,00,000 have been moreover seized.googletag.cmd.push(function() googletag.present(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    Thirteen people have been arrested to date inside the case related to teaching of PFI cadre in Phulwarisharif in  Patna given that first spherical of raids carried out on July 6-7, 2022. A whole of 60 locations have to date been regarded for gathering credible proof inside the case, which was initially registered on July 12,  2022 at PS Phulwarisharif, District Patna, Bihar. The case was later re-registered by the NIA on July 22. The firm filed a price sheet in direction of 4 accused people on January 7 this 12 months.

    An NIA spokesperson acknowledged that investigations have revealed the accused, along with completely different suspects, have been working from the rented premises in Phulwarisharif for ending up jail actions on behalf of PFI. They moreover labored as bodily education trainers for recruiting PFI cadres. It might be suspected that even after the ban on PFI by the federal authorities, its cadres continued to be involved in promoting the outfit’s ideology and its nefarious, unlawful and anti-national actions. 

    Case pertains to teaching of PFI cadres
    Investigations have revealed the accused, along with completely different suspects, have been working from the rented premises in Phulwarisharif for ending up jail actions on behalf of PFI. They moreover labored as bodily education trainers for recruiting PFI cadres

  • NIA chargsheets 68 in PFI circumstances of Kerala, TN

    Express News Service

    NEW DELHI: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday filed two chargesheets towards 68 Popular Front of India (PFI) leaders, cadres and members in two separate circumstances in Kochi (Kerala) and Chennai (Tamil Nadu). The expenses towards them embody “conspiring to carry out acts of terror and violence with the ultimate objective of establishing an Islamic Rule in India by 2047.”

    According to NIA sources, the chargesheets filed Friday in Kerala and Tamil Nadu, the 2 states the place PFI is energetic, relate to separate “criminal conspiracies” relating to creating a wedge between folks of various communities via radicalisation of impressionable Muslim youth, offering them with coaching in dealing with of weapons, and elevating funds for finishing up acts of terror and violence with the last word goal of building an Islamic Rule in India by 2047.

    With these, the entire variety of chargesheets filed by NIA towards PFI cadres this month has gone as much as 4. The first such chargesheet was filed in Jaipur on March 13 and the second in Hyderabad on March 16.

    The Kerala PFI case was registered in September 2022.

    The chargesheet was filed within the Special Court for NIA Cases, Ernakulam, towards the PFI as an organisation and 58 different accused individuals. NIA had arrested 16 of the accused after taking on the case in 2022, whereas the others have been arrested earlier by Kerala Police. More than 100 places throughout the state have been raided in reference to the case. The NIA has additionally connected 17 properties as they have been recognized as ‘proceeds of terrorism’ and frozen 18 financial institution accounts of the accused through the course of its investigations.

    In an analogous case registered and investigated by NIA’s Chennai department in Tamil Nadu, the company filed a chargesheet towards 10 accused. 

    NIA investigations allegedly revealed that to realize their aims, PFI had established varied wings & models together with the “physical and arms training wing.” 

    The PFI was allegedly utilizing its varied campuses, services and infrastructure to impart arms coaching to chose cadres within the guise of bodily schooling, Yoga coaching, and many others. 

    NEW DELHI: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday filed two chargesheets towards 68 Popular Front of India (PFI) leaders, cadres and members in two separate circumstances in Kochi (Kerala) and Chennai (Tamil Nadu). The expenses towards them embody “conspiring to carry out acts of terror and violence with the ultimate objective of establishing an Islamic Rule in India by 2047.”

    According to NIA sources, the chargesheets filed Friday in Kerala and Tamil Nadu, the 2 states the place PFI is energetic, relate to separate “criminal conspiracies” relating to creating a wedge between folks of various communities via radicalisation of impressionable Muslim youth, offering them with coaching in dealing with of weapons, and elevating funds for finishing up acts of terror and violence with the last word goal of building an Islamic Rule in India by 2047.

    With these, the entire variety of chargesheets filed by NIA towards PFI cadres this month has gone as much as 4. The first such chargesheet was filed in Jaipur on March 13 and the second in Hyderabad on March 16.googletag.cmd.push(operate() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    The Kerala PFI case was registered in September 2022.

    The chargesheet was filed within the Special Court for NIA Cases, Ernakulam, towards the PFI as an organisation and 58 different accused individuals. NIA had arrested 16 of the accused after taking on the case in 2022, whereas the others have been arrested earlier by Kerala Police. More than 100 places throughout the state have been raided in reference to the case. The NIA has additionally connected 17 properties as they have been recognized as ‘proceeds of terrorism’ and frozen 18 financial institution accounts of the accused through the course of its investigations.

    In an analogous case registered and investigated by NIA’s Chennai department in Tamil Nadu, the company filed a chargesheet towards 10 accused. 

    NIA investigations allegedly revealed that to realize their aims, PFI had established varied wings & models together with the “physical and arms training wing.” 

    The PFI was allegedly utilizing its varied campuses, services and infrastructure to impart arms coaching to chose cadres within the guise of bodily schooling, Yoga coaching, and many others. 

  • Madhya Pradesh: Muslim regulation pupil arrested on ‘false fees’ approaches SC 

    By Online Desk

    A Muslim lawyer and a regulation pupil, have reportedly approached the Supreme Court looking for justice after they had been implicated in “false, baseless, politically motivated and communally charged cases” on the behest of organisations having affiliations to the ruling BJP in Madhya Pradesh.

    According to Live Law, the petitioners are lawyer Noorjahan and regulation pupil Sonu Mansoori.

    Quoting the petition, Live Law recalled that on January 28, 2023, Bajrang Dal supporters accompanied by a gaggle of attorneys related to the Adhivakta Sangh (attorneys outfit), manhandled the intern contained in the courtroom accusing her of secretly recording bail proceedings of a Bajrang Dal chief. He was accused of finishing up acts of vandalism in protest of the film ‘Pathan.’ The intern was forcibly frisked by the miscreants who additionally snatched away a big sum of cash and a cellphone that was in her possession. The police, as an alternative of taking motion in opposition to the malefactors, took the intern to the police station and lodged FIR in opposition to her on the premise of a criticism claiming that she was working for banned outfits just like the PFI (Popular Front of India). Subsequently, she was arrested, produced earlier than a courtroom on January 29 and despatched to judicial remand until February 1. 

    “No lawyer dared to appear on behalf of the intern amidst the “communally hostile surroundings” created by the miscreants,” the petition stated, in accordance with the authorized information website.

    Further, for the reason that native attorneys refused to defend her, 4 attorneys from Delhi needed to go to Indore to file the bail utility. But the 4 counsels had been prevented from attending the courtroom listening to and police safety was denied to them. The native bar affiliation additionally failed to assist. The police did not pay heed to their pleas for assist. Due to an absence of authorized illustration, the intern, who was despatched into police custody within the interim, is now beneath judicial custody.

    The petition sought instructions from the Supreme Court for an impartial inquiry into the incident that came about within the Indore district courtroom premises. The petition additionally sought instructions to the State authorities to make sure the protection of the petitioners. Since, apparently, an FIR has been registered additionally in opposition to the lawyer petitioner, the petition pleaded to remain her arrest, Live Law report stated.

    The Bench comprising Justice Ajay Rastogi and Justice Bela M Trivedi directed the petitioners to strategy the competent High Court earlier than coming to the SC, the report stated.

    The Judges had been apprised that the High Court in Indore is subsequent door to the District Court the place the unlucky incident had taken place. Taking word of the identical, the Bench issued discover to the State, the report added. 

    A Muslim lawyer and a regulation pupil, have reportedly approached the Supreme Court looking for justice after they had been implicated in “false, baseless, politically motivated and communally charged cases” on the behest of organisations having affiliations to the ruling BJP in Madhya Pradesh.

    According to Live Law, the petitioners are lawyer Noorjahan and regulation pupil Sonu Mansoori.

    Quoting the petition, Live Law recalled that on January 28, 2023, Bajrang Dal supporters accompanied by a gaggle of attorneys related to the Adhivakta Sangh (attorneys outfit), manhandled the intern contained in the courtroom accusing her of secretly recording bail proceedings of a Bajrang Dal chief. He was accused of finishing up acts of vandalism in protest of the film ‘Pathan.’ The intern was forcibly frisked by the miscreants who additionally snatched away a big sum of cash and a cellphone that was in her possession. The police, as an alternative of taking motion in opposition to the malefactors, took the intern to the police station and lodged FIR in opposition to her on the premise of a criticism claiming that she was working for banned outfits just like the PFI (Popular Front of India). Subsequently, she was arrested, produced earlier than a courtroom on January 29 and despatched to judicial remand until February 1. googletag.cmd.push(perform() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    “No lawyer dared to appear on behalf of the intern amidst the “communally hostile surroundings” created by the miscreants,” the petition stated, in accordance with the authorized information website.

    Further, for the reason that native attorneys refused to defend her, 4 attorneys from Delhi needed to go to Indore to file the bail utility. But the 4 counsels had been prevented from attending the courtroom listening to and police safety was denied to them. The native bar affiliation additionally failed to assist. The police did not pay heed to their pleas for assist. Due to an absence of authorized illustration, the intern, who was despatched into police custody within the interim, is now beneath judicial custody.

    The petition sought instructions from the Supreme Court for an impartial inquiry into the incident that came about within the Indore district courtroom premises. The petition additionally sought instructions to the State authorities to make sure the protection of the petitioners. Since, apparently, an FIR has been registered additionally in opposition to the lawyer petitioner, the petition pleaded to remain her arrest, Live Law report stated.

    The Bench comprising Justice Ajay Rastogi and Justice Bela M Trivedi directed the petitioners to strategy the competent High Court earlier than coming to the SC, the report stated.

    The Judges had been apprised that the High Court in Indore is subsequent door to the District Court the place the unlucky incident had taken place. Taking word of the identical, the Bench issued discover to the State, the report added. 

  • NIA busts multi-state hawala community funding PFI terror actions; 5 arrested

    By PTI

    NEW DELHI: The NIA on Tuesday claimed to have busted a multi-state hawala community funding the Popular Front of India’s terror actions with the arrest of 5 members of the banned outfit in Karnataka and Kerala.

    The company stated regardless of the ban imposed on it on September 27 final yr, PFI leaders and members continued to propagate the ideology of violent extremism and had been additionally arranging arms and ammunition to commit crimes.

    “NIA teams have been carrying out extensive searches in Kasargod (Kerala) and Dakshin Kannada, Karnataka, since Sunday. Searches were conducted at eight locations leading to the seizure of multiple digital devices and incriminating documents containing details of transactions running into several crores of rupees,” a spokesperson of the company stated.

    The official stated Popular Front of India (PFI) members Mahammad Sinan, Sarfraz Nawaz, Iqbal and Abdul Rafeek M of Karnataka and Abid Ok M of Kerala have been arrested.

    The arrest adopted tracing and monitoring of funds being moved by the PFI throughout the nation, particularly in Kerala, Karnataka and Bihar, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) spokesperson stated, including that the company’s investigations into the Phulwarisharif PFI case of Bihar have led to the unearthing of a giant community of hawala operatives in south India.

    “A PFI funding-by-hawala module operating out of Bihar and Karnataka with roots in the UAE has been busted with the arrests of the five operatives,” the official stated.

    “PFI cadres in Phulwarisharif and Motihari had vowed to continue PFI activities in a clandestine manner in Bihar and had also arranged a firearm and ammunition recently to eliminate a youth of a particular community in Bihar’s East Champaran district. Three operatives of the module had been arrested on February 5,” the spokesperson stated.

    The official stated individuals arrested from Karnataka and Kerala have been discovered to be actively concerned in PFI’s felony conspiracy to maneuver and channelise illicit funds procured from outdoors India for distribution amongst leaders and members of the banned group.

    Earlier, seven accused individuals had been arrested after they had gathered within the Phulwarisharif space of Bihar’s Patna in July final yr for coaching and to hold out acts of terror and violence, the spokesperson stated.

    Pursuing leads since July final yr, the official stated the NIA group discovered that regardless of the ban on its actions in September final yr, the PFI continued to propagate the ideology of violent extremism and had been additionally arranging arms and ammunition to commit crimes.

    Following the leads, the official stated, the NIA investigators reached Nawaz and Sinan, who had been discovered making deposits within the financial institution accounts of the accused and suspects within the PFI case.

    “Dogged pursuit of the money trail and connecting the dots, the NIA managed to unravel the international conspiracy and linkages to the funds while investigating Iqbal and other associates who had collected illegally generated funds from Dubai and Abu Dhabi and handed them over to Sinan, Nawaz, Rafeek and Abid in India,” the spokesperson stated.

    “Investigations have shown that Sarfaraz, Sinan and Rafeek deposited this money in different bank accounts of the accused and the suspects,” the official stated.

    The NIA stated additional investigations are on monitor to hint and choke worldwide as nicely home illicit funding channels of the PFI.

    The 5 accused will likely be produced within the NIA Special Court Patna, the spokesperson stated.

    NEW DELHI: The NIA on Tuesday claimed to have busted a multi-state hawala community funding the Popular Front of India’s terror actions with the arrest of 5 members of the banned outfit in Karnataka and Kerala.

    The company stated regardless of the ban imposed on it on September 27 final yr, PFI leaders and members continued to propagate the ideology of violent extremism and had been additionally arranging arms and ammunition to commit crimes.

    “NIA teams have been carrying out extensive searches in Kasargod (Kerala) and Dakshin Kannada, Karnataka, since Sunday. Searches were conducted at eight locations leading to the seizure of multiple digital devices and incriminating documents containing details of transactions running into several crores of rupees,” a spokesperson of the company stated.googletag.cmd.push(perform() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    The official stated Popular Front of India (PFI) members Mahammad Sinan, Sarfraz Nawaz, Iqbal and Abdul Rafeek M of Karnataka and Abid Ok M of Kerala have been arrested.

    The arrest adopted tracing and monitoring of funds being moved by the PFI throughout the nation, particularly in Kerala, Karnataka and Bihar, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) spokesperson stated, including that the company’s investigations into the Phulwarisharif PFI case of Bihar have led to the unearthing of a giant community of hawala operatives in south India.

    “A PFI funding-by-hawala module operating out of Bihar and Karnataka with roots in the UAE has been busted with the arrests of the five operatives,” the official stated.

    “PFI cadres in Phulwarisharif and Motihari had vowed to continue PFI activities in a clandestine manner in Bihar and had also arranged a firearm and ammunition recently to eliminate a youth of a particular community in Bihar’s East Champaran district. Three operatives of the module had been arrested on February 5,” the spokesperson stated.

    The official stated individuals arrested from Karnataka and Kerala have been discovered to be actively concerned in PFI’s felony conspiracy to maneuver and channelise illicit funds procured from outdoors India for distribution amongst leaders and members of the banned group.

    Earlier, seven accused individuals had been arrested after they had gathered within the Phulwarisharif space of Bihar’s Patna in July final yr for coaching and to hold out acts of terror and violence, the spokesperson stated.

    Pursuing leads since July final yr, the official stated the NIA group discovered that regardless of the ban on its actions in September final yr, the PFI continued to propagate the ideology of violent extremism and had been additionally arranging arms and ammunition to commit crimes.

    Following the leads, the official stated, the NIA investigators reached Nawaz and Sinan, who had been discovered making deposits within the financial institution accounts of the accused and suspects within the PFI case.

    “Dogged pursuit of the money trail and connecting the dots, the NIA managed to unravel the international conspiracy and linkages to the funds while investigating Iqbal and other associates who had collected illegally generated funds from Dubai and Abu Dhabi and handed them over to Sinan, Nawaz, Rafeek and Abid in India,” the spokesperson stated.

    “Investigations have shown that Sarfaraz, Sinan and Rafeek deposited this money in different bank accounts of the accused and the suspects,” the official stated.

    The NIA stated additional investigations are on monitor to hint and choke worldwide as nicely home illicit funding channels of the PFI.

    The 5 accused will likely be produced within the NIA Special Court Patna, the spokesperson stated.

  • NIA registers contemporary case towards 5 PFI activists in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur after ‘recruitment drive’

    Express News Service

    PATNA: A First Information Report (FIR) has been lodged towards banned Popular Front of India (PFI) activists in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur district for finishing up the recruitment of youths and holding coaching periods for its cadres.

    Muzaffarpur senior superintendent of police (SSP) Rakesh Kumar stated on Wednesday that FIR was lodged at Baruraj police station within the district towards 5 PFI activists on foundation of an announcement of National Investigation Agency (NIA) inspector Vikas Kumar.

    “Investigation is on. More information will come to light in days to come,” SSP Kumar stated, including that Bihar ATS (anti-terrorist squad) has additionally been roped in to help NIA in an operation towards PFI within the district.

    Mohmmad Belal alias Irshad, a resident of Harpur Kisuni in East Champaran, Riyaz Maroof alias Bablu, a resident of Kuawan below Mehsi police station in East Champaran, Yakoob Khan alias Sultan Usman, a resident of Mogalpur below Mehsi police station in East Champaran, Mohammad Afroz, a resident of Kasba village and Kadir, a resident of Parsauni in Muzaffarpur district has been naming as accused within the FIR.

    Altogether six PFI suspects have been detained for interrogation by NIA, who revealed that recruitment was being achieved in border districts of Bihar by a banned outfit. Mostly youths from East Champaran and Muzaffarpur had been their goal.

    An investigation carried out by NIA revealed that coaching camps had been organised at Parsauni village below Baruraj police station in Muzaffarpur district after a ban imposed on PFI in September final yr. The recruitment course of was held on the ancestral home of Mohammad Kadir in Parsauni village in October final yr. Raids had been carried out at Ahiyapur in Muzaffarpur seeking Yakoob, who’s acknowledged to be the primary coach of newly recruited cadres.

    During the investigation, it got here to gentle that coaching periods of cadres had been held below the garb of bodily schooling. Earlier, three PFI activists had revealed that weapons and ammunition had been offered for finishing up focused killing in Bihar to create hatred in society. 

    PATNA: A First Information Report (FIR) has been lodged towards banned Popular Front of India (PFI) activists in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur district for finishing up the recruitment of youths and holding coaching periods for its cadres.

    Muzaffarpur senior superintendent of police (SSP) Rakesh Kumar stated on Wednesday that FIR was lodged at Baruraj police station within the district towards 5 PFI activists on foundation of an announcement of National Investigation Agency (NIA) inspector Vikas Kumar.

    “Investigation is on. More information will come to light in days to come,” SSP Kumar stated, including that Bihar ATS (anti-terrorist squad) has additionally been roped in to help NIA in an operation towards PFI within the district.

    Mohmmad Belal alias Irshad, a resident of Harpur Kisuni in East Champaran, Riyaz Maroof alias Bablu, a resident of Kuawan below Mehsi police station in East Champaran, Yakoob Khan alias Sultan Usman, a resident of Mogalpur below Mehsi police station in East Champaran, Mohammad Afroz, a resident of Kasba village and Kadir, a resident of Parsauni in Muzaffarpur district has been naming as accused within the FIR.

    Altogether six PFI suspects have been detained for interrogation by NIA, who revealed that recruitment was being achieved in border districts of Bihar by a banned outfit. Mostly youths from East Champaran and Muzaffarpur had been their goal.

    An investigation carried out by NIA revealed that coaching camps had been organised at Parsauni village below Baruraj police station in Muzaffarpur district after a ban imposed on PFI in September final yr. The recruitment course of was held on the ancestral home of Mohammad Kadir in Parsauni village in October final yr. Raids had been carried out at Ahiyapur in Muzaffarpur seeking Yakoob, who’s acknowledged to be the primary coach of newly recruited cadres.

    During the investigation, it got here to gentle that coaching periods of cadres had been held below the garb of bodily schooling. Earlier, three PFI activists had revealed that weapons and ammunition had been offered for finishing up focused killing in Bihar to create hatred in society. 

  • Indore: Law scholar held for filming court docket listening to on Bajrang Dal

    By Express News Service

    BHOPAL:  A younger feminine regulation scholar Sonu Mansoori, held by police from one of many courtrooms in Indore District Court premises on Saturday for posing as an advocate and clicking footage/movies throughout trial of a case (wherein Bajrang Dal males are accused) is linked to the banned Popular Front of India (PFI), the Madhya Pradesh residence minister Narottam Mishra mentioned on Monday.

    “A case has already been registered against her. In her statement to the police, she has stated about furnishing updates and details about trial of such cases to the PFI and Peace Party. Cash totaling Rs 1.25 lakh has been seized from her possession, the source of the seized money is being tracked. It’s also being further probed why she was present in the courtroom and filming pictures and visuals during the trial of a case. All these related aspects are being probed by police,” Mishra mentioned in Bhopal.

    She was taking pictures movies within the court docket in a case pertaining to elevating religiously provocative slogans by Bajrang Dal in the course of the January 25 protests in opposition to Pathaan in Indore. Four Bajrang Dal males had been arrested.

    BHOPAL:  A younger feminine regulation scholar Sonu Mansoori, held by police from one of many courtrooms in Indore District Court premises on Saturday for posing as an advocate and clicking footage/movies throughout trial of a case (wherein Bajrang Dal males are accused) is linked to the banned Popular Front of India (PFI), the Madhya Pradesh residence minister Narottam Mishra mentioned on Monday.

    “A case has already been registered against her. In her statement to the police, she has stated about furnishing updates and details about trial of such cases to the PFI and Peace Party. Cash totaling Rs 1.25 lakh has been seized from her possession, the source of the seized money is being tracked. It’s also being further probed why she was present in the courtroom and filming pictures and visuals during the trial of a case. All these related aspects are being probed by police,” Mishra mentioned in Bhopal.

    She was taking pictures movies within the court docket in a case pertaining to elevating religiously provocative slogans by Bajrang Dal in the course of the January 25 protests in opposition to Pathaan in Indore. Four Bajrang Dal males had been arrested.

  • NIA conducts raid on the premises of former PFI leaders in Kerala

    By Express News Service

    KOCHI: After the Union Government banned the Popular Front of India (PFI), the National Investigation Agency (NIA) is continuous its crackdown on PFI and on Thursday carried out raids on the premises of those that have been earlier related to PFI in Kerala. A particular group of NIA raided the residences of a number of PFI leaders throughout the state.

    Official sources mentioned the simultaneous raids started on Wednesday evening in 56 locations unfold throughout Ernakulam, Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam, Pathanamthitta, Palakkad, Alappuzha and Malappuram districts. The raids have been carried out following inputs that just a few leaders have been nonetheless actively coordinating the functioning of the PFI regardless of the ban.

    The raids have been particularly centered on the premises of these leaders who have been earlier lively functionaries of the PFI. Sources mentioned the NIA has been monitoring the actions of a number of PFI leaders after the ban and acquired inputs that a lot of them have been conducting secret conferences at varied locations in Ernakulam, Alappuzha, Malappuram and Thiruvananthapuram. As a part of the raids, the NIA group can be accumulating the checking account particulars of some suspects to trace fund transfers.

    KOCHI: After the Union Government banned the Popular Front of India (PFI), the National Investigation Agency (NIA) is continuous its crackdown on PFI and on Thursday carried out raids on the premises of those that have been earlier related to PFI in Kerala. A particular group of NIA raided the residences of a number of PFI leaders throughout the state.

    Official sources mentioned the simultaneous raids started on Wednesday evening in 56 locations unfold throughout Ernakulam, Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam, Pathanamthitta, Palakkad, Alappuzha and Malappuram districts. The raids have been carried out following inputs that just a few leaders have been nonetheless actively coordinating the functioning of the PFI regardless of the ban.

    The raids have been particularly centered on the premises of these leaders who have been earlier lively functionaries of the PFI. Sources mentioned the NIA has been monitoring the actions of a number of PFI leaders after the ban and acquired inputs that a lot of them have been conducting secret conferences at varied locations in Ernakulam, Alappuzha, Malappuram and Thiruvananthapuram. As a part of the raids, the NIA group can be accumulating the checking account particulars of some suspects to trace fund transfers.

  • UAPA prices in opposition to arrested PFI males in Bihar

    Express News Service

    PATNA: Bihar authorities has initiated motion in opposition to members of the novel Islamic organisation, Popular Front of India (PFI) and its associates following a directive from the Union Home Ministry. The Centre has already banned PFI for its alleged involvement in illegal actions, which have been prejudicial to the integrity, sovereignty and safety of the nation. However, the state authorities has initiated motion underneath provisions of Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) 1967.

    According to sources, Bihar dwelling division has requested the District Magistrate (DMs) to take motion in opposition to seven PFI suspects on the premise of inputs supplied by the Union Home Ministry.  The Union Home Ministry had written to state dwelling secretary Amir Subhani for offering names, particulars of financial institution accounts and PAN numbers of the members.

    Later, particular secretary (dwelling division) KS Anupam requested all district magistrates to provoke motion in opposition to PFI suspects on the premise of those inputs. The Union Home Ministry’s undersecretary SP Choudhary had earlier despatched the main points of seven PFI suspects to the state chief secretary of Bihar Subhani, who subsequently requested the authorities involved to ebook the seven suspects underneath UAPA.

    Among seven suspects, 4 are from Darbhanga and one every from Araria, Sitamarhi and Madhubani. The PFI suspects have their financial institution accounts in these districts. “We have obtained a communique from the state dwelling division to tighten the noose round PFI activists and its associates.

    The inputs have been shared with SP asking him to take motion accordingly,” mentioned Araria DM Inayat Khan. NIA had performed raids on the PFI members in Phulwarisharif locality within the state capital in September and arrested its three members.

    Seven suspects
    The DMs have been requested to take concrete step in opposition to PFI and its associates underneath Unlawful (Prevention) Activities Act. Among seven suspects, 4 are from Darbhanga and one every from Araria, Sitamarhi and Madhubani. 

    PATNA: Bihar authorities has initiated motion in opposition to members of the novel Islamic organisation, Popular Front of India (PFI) and its associates following a directive from the Union Home Ministry. The Centre has already banned PFI for its alleged involvement in illegal actions, which have been prejudicial to the integrity, sovereignty and safety of the nation. However, the state authorities has initiated motion underneath provisions of Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) 1967.

    According to sources, Bihar dwelling division has requested the District Magistrate (DMs) to take motion in opposition to seven PFI suspects on the premise of inputs supplied by the Union Home Ministry.  The Union Home Ministry had written to state dwelling secretary Amir Subhani for offering names, particulars of financial institution accounts and PAN numbers of the members.

    Later, particular secretary (dwelling division) KS Anupam requested all district magistrates to provoke motion in opposition to PFI suspects on the premise of those inputs. The Union Home Ministry’s undersecretary SP Choudhary had earlier despatched the main points of seven PFI suspects to the state chief secretary of Bihar Subhani, who subsequently requested the authorities involved to ebook the seven suspects underneath UAPA.

    Among seven suspects, 4 are from Darbhanga and one every from Araria, Sitamarhi and Madhubani. The PFI suspects have their financial institution accounts in these districts. “We have obtained a communique from the state dwelling division to tighten the noose round PFI activists and its associates.

    The inputs have been shared with SP asking him to take motion accordingly,” mentioned Araria DM Inayat Khan. NIA had performed raids on the PFI members in Phulwarisharif locality within the state capital in September and arrested its three members.

    Seven suspects
    The DMs have been requested to take concrete step in opposition to PFI and its associates underneath Unlawful (Prevention) Activities Act. Among seven suspects, 4 are from Darbhanga and one every from Araria, Sitamarhi and Madhubani. 

  • PFI man protesting denial of knowledge on causes for arrest will get FIR copy

    By PTI

    NEW DELHI: Copies of the FIR and arrest memo have been provided to a person arrested through the large crackdown on the Popular Front of India (PFI) earlier than it was banned, the Delhi High Court was knowledgeable on Monday, days after the accused remonstrated the denial of details about the explanations for his arrest.

    The alleged (PFI) activist had moved the excessive courtroom looking for a duplicate of the FIR registered in opposition to the members of the now outlawed organisation, the grounds for arrest of every of them, and the remand functions filed by the NIA for the custodial interrogation of the accused.

    Justice Anoop Kumar Mendiratta listed the matter for additional listening to on November 11 because the counsel for the accused stated the case is listed earlier than the trial courtroom later within the day and he expects the remand utility to be offered to him as his NIA custody is prone to finish.

    The counsel for Mohd Yusuff, who was arrested from his residence in Chennai on September 22 within the case lodged beneath the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), the stringent anti-terror legislation, additionally informed the excessive courtroom he has acquired a duplicate of the FIR after submitting the petition and that the accused will get to know the explanations for his arrest from NIA’s remand utility.

    “How will we move bail application when we do not know the case against us?” advocate Adit Pujari, showing for Yusuff, stated throughout arguments.

    The NIA’s counsel famous the grounds of arrest are additionally talked about within the FIR and vehemently opposed the accused’s prayer for a duplicate of the remand utility.

    “The remand application is akin to our case diary. The case is at an initial stage. We are keeping it confidential as it can hamper our investigation. The procedure is that they have to first move to the special court and then come to the high court,” the NIA counsel stated.

    He stated the remand utility additionally accommodates what the company is probing and, if provided to the accused, it’ll prejudice the NIA’s case.

    A lot of alleged PFI activists had been detained or arrested in a number of states through the large raids previous the nationwide ban imposed on the novel Islamist outfit on September 28.

    Petitioner Yusuff, who claims to be a practising advocate, had sought a route to the NIA to supply him with a duplicate of the FIR lodged by the company in Delhi on April 13, the paperwork itemizing the grounds of the arrest of every accused particular person and a duplicate of the remand functions filed by the NIA earlier than the trial courtroom.

    The petitioner stated he was arrested round 3 AM on September 22 from his residence in Chennai by the NIA together with others, who all had been picked up from totally different elements of the nation and delivered to the nationwide capital in reference to the case lodged in Delhi.

    “At the time of his arrest, the respondent (NIA) did not communicate to the petitioner any particulars of the offence for which he has been arrested or any grounds of such arrest in clear violation of the statutory mandate provided under Section 50 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) read with Article 22(1) of the Constitution,” the plea submitted.

    ALSO READ | Delhi HC asks NIA to reply to plea for FIR copy lodged in opposition to alleged PFI members 

    It stated when the accused had been produced earlier than a trial courtroom right here, their counsel sought a duplicate of the FIR lodged on September 22 in addition to on September 26.

    However, the extra periods choose (ASJ) rejected the appliance filed by the petitioner on the bottom that the matter is of a delicate nature and that offering a duplicate of the FIR will hamper the investigation, the petitioner submitted.

    It added Article 22(1) of the Constitution prohibits the detention of an individual arrested and in custody with out being knowledgeable of the grounds of such arrest.

    The plea stated denial of a duplicate of the FIR, circumscribing the allegations and particulars of the offences in opposition to the accused individuals, is a transparent violation of the ideas of pure justice and the accused particular person’s proper to honest trial and investigation.

    The authorities banned the PFI and a number of other of its affiliate organisations on September 28 for 5 years beneath the stringent anti-terror legislation UAPA, accusing them of getting “links” with world terror teams like ISIS.

    NEW DELHI: Copies of the FIR and arrest memo have been provided to a person arrested through the large crackdown on the Popular Front of India (PFI) earlier than it was banned, the Delhi High Court was knowledgeable on Monday, days after the accused remonstrated the denial of details about the explanations for his arrest.

    The alleged (PFI) activist had moved the excessive courtroom looking for a duplicate of the FIR registered in opposition to the members of the now outlawed organisation, the grounds for arrest of every of them, and the remand functions filed by the NIA for the custodial interrogation of the accused.

    Justice Anoop Kumar Mendiratta listed the matter for additional listening to on November 11 because the counsel for the accused stated the case is listed earlier than the trial courtroom later within the day and he expects the remand utility to be offered to him as his NIA custody is prone to finish.

    The counsel for Mohd Yusuff, who was arrested from his residence in Chennai on September 22 within the case lodged beneath the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), the stringent anti-terror legislation, additionally informed the excessive courtroom he has acquired a duplicate of the FIR after submitting the petition and that the accused will get to know the explanations for his arrest from NIA’s remand utility.

    “How will we move bail application when we do not know the case against us?” advocate Adit Pujari, showing for Yusuff, stated throughout arguments.

    The NIA’s counsel famous the grounds of arrest are additionally talked about within the FIR and vehemently opposed the accused’s prayer for a duplicate of the remand utility.

    “The remand application is akin to our case diary. The case is at an initial stage. We are keeping it confidential as it can hamper our investigation. The procedure is that they have to first move to the special court and then come to the high court,” the NIA counsel stated.

    He stated the remand utility additionally accommodates what the company is probing and, if provided to the accused, it’ll prejudice the NIA’s case.

    A lot of alleged PFI activists had been detained or arrested in a number of states through the large raids previous the nationwide ban imposed on the novel Islamist outfit on September 28.

    Petitioner Yusuff, who claims to be a practising advocate, had sought a route to the NIA to supply him with a duplicate of the FIR lodged by the company in Delhi on April 13, the paperwork itemizing the grounds of the arrest of every accused particular person and a duplicate of the remand functions filed by the NIA earlier than the trial courtroom.

    The petitioner stated he was arrested round 3 AM on September 22 from his residence in Chennai by the NIA together with others, who all had been picked up from totally different elements of the nation and delivered to the nationwide capital in reference to the case lodged in Delhi.

    “At the time of his arrest, the respondent (NIA) did not communicate to the petitioner any particulars of the offence for which he has been arrested or any grounds of such arrest in clear violation of the statutory mandate provided under Section 50 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) read with Article 22(1) of the Constitution,” the plea submitted.

    ALSO READ | Delhi HC asks NIA to reply to plea for FIR copy lodged in opposition to alleged PFI members 

    It stated when the accused had been produced earlier than a trial courtroom right here, their counsel sought a duplicate of the FIR lodged on September 22 in addition to on September 26.

    However, the extra periods choose (ASJ) rejected the appliance filed by the petitioner on the bottom that the matter is of a delicate nature and that offering a duplicate of the FIR will hamper the investigation, the petitioner submitted.

    It added Article 22(1) of the Constitution prohibits the detention of an individual arrested and in custody with out being knowledgeable of the grounds of such arrest.

    The plea stated denial of a duplicate of the FIR, circumscribing the allegations and particulars of the offences in opposition to the accused individuals, is a transparent violation of the ideas of pure justice and the accused particular person’s proper to honest trial and investigation.

    The authorities banned the PFI and a number of other of its affiliate organisations on September 28 for 5 years beneath the stringent anti-terror legislation UAPA, accusing them of getting “links” with world terror teams like ISIS.