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  • Delhi HC asks NIA to reply to plea for FIR copy lodged towards alleged PFI members 

    By PTI

    NEW DELHI: Delhi High Court on Friday sought the NIA’s response on a plea searching for a duplicate of FIR registered towards alleged members of the banned Popular Front of India (PFI) in a case lodged beneath UAPA.

    Justice Anoop Kumar Mendiratta issued the discover to the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on a petition filed by one Mohd Yusuff, who was arrested from his residence in Chennai on September 22 within the case lodged beneath the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.

    The High Court has listed the matter for additional listening to on October 10.

    NEW DELHI: Delhi High Court on Friday sought the NIA’s response on a plea searching for a duplicate of FIR registered towards alleged members of the banned Popular Front of India (PFI) in a case lodged beneath UAPA.

    Justice Anoop Kumar Mendiratta issued the discover to the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on a petition filed by one Mohd Yusuff, who was arrested from his residence in Chennai on September 22 within the case lodged beneath the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.

    The High Court has listed the matter for additional listening to on October 10.

  • Kerala: Police officer in Ernakulam suspended for aiding PFI throughout state-wide hartal final month

    By Express News Service

    KOCHI: The Kerala police division on Wednesday suspended a police officer for aiding the banned Popular Front of India (PFI) throughout the state-wide hartal on September 23.

    C A Siyad, a civil police officer hooked up to the Kalady police station in Ernakulam, was suspended primarily based on the findings of an inside investigation performed by the Ernakulam Rural SP. As per the report, Siyad was in fixed contact with the PFI employees for a very long time.

    “He also helped three PFI workers after they were taken into custody in connection with the agitation carried out on the hartal day. He also helped the trio by taking them on station bail. Moreover, he also ensured they got food inside the station,” mentioned a police officer primarily based on the report.

    The police additionally discovered that regardless of being a police officer, he had a robust community with the PFI employees.

    “The call records clearly show that he has a strong network with the PFI workers. Moreover, he helped them several times. We also found that one of his close relatives is a member of the banned outfit,” added the officer.

    KOCHI: The Kerala police division on Wednesday suspended a police officer for aiding the banned Popular Front of India (PFI) throughout the state-wide hartal on September 23.

    C A Siyad, a civil police officer hooked up to the Kalady police station in Ernakulam, was suspended primarily based on the findings of an inside investigation performed by the Ernakulam Rural SP. As per the report, Siyad was in fixed contact with the PFI employees for a very long time.

    “He also helped three PFI workers after they were taken into custody in connection with the agitation carried out on the hartal day. He also helped the trio by taking them on station bail. Moreover, he also ensured they got food inside the station,” mentioned a police officer primarily based on the report.

    The police additionally discovered that regardless of being a police officer, he had a robust community with the PFI employees.

    “The call records clearly show that he has a strong network with the PFI workers. Moreover, he helped them several times. We also found that one of his close relatives is a member of the banned outfit,” added the officer.

  • Kerala professor whose palm was chopped off says RSS, PFI cannot be in contrast

    By IANS

    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Life was easy for Prof T J Joseph who was educating the Malayalam language at New Man College, Thodupuzha in Kerala.

    It all modified one morning when he alongside together with his household was returning residence on July 4, 2010, after attending the Holy Sunday companies at a close-by church in his hometown Muvattupuzha. A gaggle of eight males in an Omni van waylaid him, blocked his automotive, dragged him out, and chopped off his proper palm.

    The motive: He had set a query paper for the second-year B.com college students of Newman College through which the Islamists claimed he had used derogatory phrases in opposition to Prophet Mohammed. The dastardly act that shocked the state was dedicated by the Popular Front of India activists after the alleged verdict of an unlawful court docket functioning in Erattupetta in Kottayam district.

    Life took a flip for the more serious for Joseph, who was sacked from the faculty by the Christian administration. His spouse, Salomi dedicated suicide in 2014 leaving him shattered.

    His autobiography, “Attupokatha Ormakal” (Unforgettable Memories) is a tough account of what he had undergone in life and received the Kerala Sahithya Academy award. It has been translated into English, “A Thousand Cuts: An Innocent Question and Deadly Answers”

    After the Central authorities imposed a ban on the PFI for 5 years with the Kerala police sealing its workplaces and virtually all its high management behind bars, Joseph spoke to IANS in a brief interview. He was not eager to talk a lot.

    IANS: What is your opinion in regards to the Government of India’s ban on the Popular Front of India?

    Joseph: I used to be a sufferer of their motion on July 4, 2010, as you all know and the way can a sufferer communicate on the matter. If I used to be an unusual citizen, I’ve clear viewpoints on the identical. I haven’t got a lot to remark in regards to the ban imposed on the Popular Front of India by the Government of India. At instances it’s higher to maintain silent and lots of the victims of the Popular Front’s assaults usually are not alive now and in solidarity with them, I’m additionally not talking.

    They cannot communicate and equally, I’m additionally holding quiet. However the Government of India’s was a political determination, one thing associated to nationwide safety and it’s higher for political leaders, organisations, and others to talk on the identical.

    IANS: After the Popular Front was banned, there may be an ecosystem creating in Kerala and the remainder of the nation that the PFI and RSS are two sides of the identical coin and the RSS also needs to have been banned. Your remark.

    Joseph: How are you able to equate a nationalist group just like the RSS with the Popular Front of India? The RSS is a nationalist group with a fierce love for the nation, with its tradition and its craving to make our nice nation among the best on this planet.

    The Popular Front is having a unique viewpoint and everybody is aware of what they’ve finished right here. The cost sheet given in the course of the ban is itself a transparent pointer as to what they have been as much as.

    IANS: You weren’t in India and to my data you have been in Ireland. What was the programme there?

    Joseph: I used to be in Ireland with my daughter and got here again a number of days in the past. I had addressed greater than ten brief gatherings in Ireland. In reality, they have been gatherings of Keralites in Ireland. While coming again, I attended 5 conferences within the United Kingdom additionally.

    IANS: Do you’re feeling that the ban on the PFI will cut back the extremist nature of such a gaggle of individuals?

    Joseph: The Government of India has banned that group for particular causes that could be associated to nationwide safety. If the federal government and different businesses hold a correct tab on the actions of such folks, then the opportunity of regrouping is far much less.

    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Life was easy for Prof T J Joseph who was educating the Malayalam language at New Man College, Thodupuzha in Kerala.

    It all modified one morning when he alongside together with his household was returning residence on July 4, 2010, after attending the Holy Sunday companies at a close-by church in his hometown Muvattupuzha. A gaggle of eight males in an Omni van waylaid him, blocked his automotive, dragged him out, and chopped off his proper palm.

    The motive: He had set a query paper for the second-year B.com college students of Newman College through which the Islamists claimed he had used derogatory phrases in opposition to Prophet Mohammed. The dastardly act that shocked the state was dedicated by the Popular Front of India activists after the alleged verdict of an unlawful court docket functioning in Erattupetta in Kottayam district.

    Life took a flip for the more serious for Joseph, who was sacked from the faculty by the Christian administration. His spouse, Salomi dedicated suicide in 2014 leaving him shattered.

    His autobiography, “Attupokatha Ormakal” (Unforgettable Memories) is a tough account of what he had undergone in life and received the Kerala Sahithya Academy award. It has been translated into English, “A Thousand Cuts: An Innocent Question and Deadly Answers”

    After the Central authorities imposed a ban on the PFI for 5 years with the Kerala police sealing its workplaces and virtually all its high management behind bars, Joseph spoke to IANS in a brief interview. He was not eager to talk a lot.

    IANS: What is your opinion in regards to the Government of India’s ban on the Popular Front of India?

    Joseph: I used to be a sufferer of their motion on July 4, 2010, as you all know and the way can a sufferer communicate on the matter. If I used to be an unusual citizen, I’ve clear viewpoints on the identical. I haven’t got a lot to remark in regards to the ban imposed on the Popular Front of India by the Government of India. At instances it’s higher to maintain silent and lots of the victims of the Popular Front’s assaults usually are not alive now and in solidarity with them, I’m additionally not talking.

    They cannot communicate and equally, I’m additionally holding quiet. However the Government of India’s was a political determination, one thing associated to nationwide safety and it’s higher for political leaders, organisations, and others to talk on the identical.

    IANS: After the Popular Front was banned, there may be an ecosystem creating in Kerala and the remainder of the nation that the PFI and RSS are two sides of the identical coin and the RSS also needs to have been banned. Your remark.

    Joseph: How are you able to equate a nationalist group just like the RSS with the Popular Front of India? The RSS is a nationalist group with a fierce love for the nation, with its tradition and its craving to make our nice nation among the best on this planet.

    The Popular Front is having a unique viewpoint and everybody is aware of what they’ve finished right here. The cost sheet given in the course of the ban is itself a transparent pointer as to what they have been as much as.

    IANS: You weren’t in India and to my data you have been in Ireland. What was the programme there?

    Joseph: I used to be in Ireland with my daughter and got here again a number of days in the past. I had addressed greater than ten brief gatherings in Ireland. In reality, they have been gatherings of Keralites in Ireland. While coming again, I attended 5 conferences within the United Kingdom additionally.

    IANS: Do you’re feeling that the ban on the PFI will cut back the extremist nature of such a gaggle of individuals?

    Joseph: The Government of India has banned that group for particular causes that could be associated to nationwide safety. If the federal government and different businesses hold a correct tab on the actions of such folks, then the opportunity of regrouping is far much less.

  • PFI concerned in cash laundering, ED tells court docket which sends 3 accused to jail for 14 days

    By PTI

    NEW DELHI: Popular Front of India (PFI) has been concerned in steady offences of cash laundering over time, the Enforcement Directorate Friday advised a Delhi Court which remanded three arrested workplace bearers of the banned outfit to 14 days of judicial custody.

    The company additionally stated that its investigation had revealed that the accused individuals performed an “active role” in elevating or receiving “bogus cash donations on behalf of PFI.”  The company arrested the three accused, Perwez Ahmad, President of PFI Delhi, Mohd.

    Ilias, basic secretary of the Delhi unit, and its workplace secretary Abdul Muqeet on September 22 for his or her alleged position within the offence of cash laundering within the guise of money donations.

    Additional Sessions Judge Shailender Malik remanded the three accused to 14 days of judicial custody after they had been produced earlier than him on completion of their seven days of custodial interrogation.

    The ED in its remand utility stated “Prevention of money laundering Act (PMLA) investigation has revealed that as part of a criminal conspiracy hatched by PFI office bearers over the past many years, suspicious funds from within the country and abroad have been raised by PFI and related entities,” It additionally stated that the funds had been “clandestinely remitted” to India and deposited of their financial institution accounts.

    Elaborating additional, the company stated that the funds had been layered, positioned, and built-in by way of the quite a few financial institution accounts of the organisation in addition to different PFI members or sympathisers.

    “Thus, PFI and its related entities have been involved in the continuous offence of money laundering over the years,”ED stated.

    “Investigation qua the accused persons has revealed that they have played an active role in (raising or receiving ) bogus cash donations on behalf of PFI,” ED added.

    The accused additionally claimed and projected PFI’s unaccounted money, obtained by way of unknown and suspicious sources, as authentic, it stated.

    As the investigation within the case was persevering with and required the gathering of further info together with the examination of voluminous knowledge from digital gadgets, the court docket may grant judicial custody of the accused, the remand utility stated.

    Further, judicial custody was additionally required to make sure that the accused didn’t affect witnesses or tamper with proof, the appliance stated. Earlier, on September 24 the court docket had allowed the ED seven days’ custody of the three accused.

    NEW DELHI: Popular Front of India (PFI) has been concerned in steady offences of cash laundering over time, the Enforcement Directorate Friday advised a Delhi Court which remanded three arrested workplace bearers of the banned outfit to 14 days of judicial custody.

    The company additionally stated that its investigation had revealed that the accused individuals performed an “active role” in elevating or receiving “bogus cash donations on behalf of PFI.”  The company arrested the three accused, Perwez Ahmad, President of PFI Delhi, Mohd.

    Ilias, basic secretary of the Delhi unit, and its workplace secretary Abdul Muqeet on September 22 for his or her alleged position within the offence of cash laundering within the guise of money donations.

    Additional Sessions Judge Shailender Malik remanded the three accused to 14 days of judicial custody after they had been produced earlier than him on completion of their seven days of custodial interrogation.

    The ED in its remand utility stated “Prevention of money laundering Act (PMLA) investigation has revealed that as part of a criminal conspiracy hatched by PFI office bearers over the past many years, suspicious funds from within the country and abroad have been raised by PFI and related entities,” It additionally stated that the funds had been “clandestinely remitted” to India and deposited of their financial institution accounts.

    Elaborating additional, the company stated that the funds had been layered, positioned, and built-in by way of the quite a few financial institution accounts of the organisation in addition to different PFI members or sympathisers.

    “Thus, PFI and its related entities have been involved in the continuous offence of money laundering over the years,”ED stated.

    “Investigation qua the accused persons has revealed that they have played an active role in (raising or receiving ) bogus cash donations on behalf of PFI,” ED added.

    The accused additionally claimed and projected PFI’s unaccounted money, obtained by way of unknown and suspicious sources, as authentic, it stated.

    As the investigation within the case was persevering with and required the gathering of further info together with the examination of voluminous knowledge from digital gadgets, the court docket may grant judicial custody of the accused, the remand utility stated.

    Further, judicial custody was additionally required to make sure that the accused didn’t affect witnesses or tamper with proof, the appliance stated. Earlier, on September 24 the court docket had allowed the ED seven days’ custody of the three accused.

  • Ban on PFI: Twitter account of Popular Front of India withheld in India

    By ANI

    NEW DELHI: The official Twitter account of Popular Front of India (PFI) has been withheld in India by the social media platform “in response to a legal demand”, a day after the Centre banned the outfit beneath the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) for “terror links”.

    The authorities had yesterday ordered the blocking of all of the social media traces of the banned outfit, together with its Twitter, YouTube channels, Instagram, and Facebook accounts.

    The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) made the announcement to ban the organisation by way of a notification issued late on Tuesday night time, declaring “the PFI and its associates or affiliates or fronts as an unlawful association with immediate effect”.

    Along with PFI, the ban can also be imposed on its fronts together with Rehab India Foundation (RIF). Campus Front of India (CFI), All India Imams Council (AIIC), National Confederation of Human Rights Organization (NCHRO), National Women’s Front, Junior Front, Empower India Foundation and Rehab Foundation, Kerala as an “unlawful association”.

    The notification clearly talked about that the ban has been imposed in opposition to PFI and its associates or associates or fronts for “indulging in illegal actions, that are prejudicial to the integrity, sovereignty and safety of the nation and have the potential of disturbing public peace and communal concord of the nation and supporting militancy within the nation.

    “In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 3 of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act. 1967 (37 of 1967), the Central Government hereby declares the Popular Front of India (PFI) and its associates or affiliates or fronts including Rehab India Foundation (RIF). Campus Front of India (CFI), All India Imams Council (AIIC), National Confederation of Human Rights Organization (NCHRO), National Women’s Front, Junior Front, Empower India Foundation and Rehab Foundation, Kerala as an ‘unlawful association’,” reads the notification.

    “The Central Government hereby directs that this notification shall, subject to any order that may be made under section 4 of the UAPA have effect for a period of five years from the date of its publication in the Office.”

    The Centre issued the ban, citing the investigation of its businesses, mentioning “the investigations have established clear linkages between PFI and its associates or affiliates or fronts”.

    It can also be accused that “some of the PFI’s founding members are the leaders of Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) and PFI has linkages with Jamat-ul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), both of which are proscribed organisations”.

    “There had been a number of instances of international linkages of PFI with Global Terrorist Groups the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). The PFI and its associates or affiliates or fronts have been working covertly to increase radicalization of one community by promoting a sense of insecurity in the country, which is substantiated by the fact that some PFI cadres have joined international terrorist organisations.”

    The PFI is concerned in a number of “criminal and terror cases and shows sheer disrespect towards the constitutional authority of the country and with funds and ideological support from outside it has become a major threat to the internal security of the country”, talked about the notification.

    NEW DELHI: The official Twitter account of Popular Front of India (PFI) has been withheld in India by the social media platform “in response to a legal demand”, a day after the Centre banned the outfit beneath the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) for “terror links”.

    The authorities had yesterday ordered the blocking of all of the social media traces of the banned outfit, together with its Twitter, YouTube channels, Instagram, and Facebook accounts.

    The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) made the announcement to ban the organisation by way of a notification issued late on Tuesday night time, declaring “the PFI and its associates or affiliates or fronts as an unlawful association with immediate effect”.

    Along with PFI, the ban can also be imposed on its fronts together with Rehab India Foundation (RIF). Campus Front of India (CFI), All India Imams Council (AIIC), National Confederation of Human Rights Organization (NCHRO), National Women’s Front, Junior Front, Empower India Foundation and Rehab Foundation, Kerala as an “unlawful association”.

    The notification clearly talked about that the ban has been imposed in opposition to PFI and its associates or associates or fronts for “indulging in illegal actions, that are prejudicial to the integrity, sovereignty and safety of the nation and have the potential of disturbing public peace and communal concord of the nation and supporting militancy within the nation.

    “In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 3 of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act. 1967 (37 of 1967), the Central Government hereby declares the Popular Front of India (PFI) and its associates or affiliates or fronts including Rehab India Foundation (RIF). Campus Front of India (CFI), All India Imams Council (AIIC), National Confederation of Human Rights Organization (NCHRO), National Women’s Front, Junior Front, Empower India Foundation and Rehab Foundation, Kerala as an ‘unlawful association’,” reads the notification.

    “The Central Government hereby directs that this notification shall, subject to any order that may be made under section 4 of the UAPA have effect for a period of five years from the date of its publication in the Office.”

    The Centre issued the ban, citing the investigation of its businesses, mentioning “the investigations have established clear linkages between PFI and its associates or affiliates or fronts”.

    It can also be accused that “some of the PFI’s founding members are the leaders of Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) and PFI has linkages with Jamat-ul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), both of which are proscribed organisations”.

    “There had been a number of instances of international linkages of PFI with Global Terrorist Groups the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). The PFI and its associates or affiliates or fronts have been working covertly to increase radicalization of one community by promoting a sense of insecurity in the country, which is substantiated by the fact that some PFI cadres have joined international terrorist organisations.”

    The PFI is concerned in a number of “criminal and terror cases and shows sheer disrespect towards the constitutional authority of the country and with funds and ideological support from outside it has become a major threat to the internal security of the country”, talked about the notification.

  • PFI concerned in ‘disturbing’ secular cloth of India; focusing on Hindu activists: Officials

    By PTI

    NEW DELHI: The PFI, banned on Wednesday, was indulging in “disturbing” the nation’s communal and secular cloth and “posing a grave threat” to nationwide safety by advancing its radical ideology and looking for to determine “political Islam” in India in addition to focusing on Hindu activists, officers stated.

    According to officers monitoring actions of the PFI and its members, a secret ‘service group’ was shaped, much like the ‘hit squads’ whose most important job was to supply safety to senior PFI leaders and likewise saved observe of Hindu leaders of their areas and plan motion in opposition to them.

    They alleged the PFI covertly organises coaching workout routines, and military-like drills, the place contributors are skilled to make use of pressure and violence in opposition to sure non secular teams, that are perceived as enemy of Islam.

    They additional alleged that since its inception, the PFI has been in opposition to Hindu organisations and its leaders and the group has a secret hit squad that engages in focused killings of Hindu activists and people allegedly indulging in blasphemy.

    The PFI is alleged to have been repeatedly concerned in anti-government propaganda and spreading the narrative that Muslims had been being persecuted in India.

    It had allegedly taken a lead in organising anti-CAA protests throughout December 2019-March 2020 and plenty of instances had been registered in opposition to them which included 51 in Uttar Pradesh alone the place the PFI-led platform, Samvidhan Suraksha Andolan, was amongst these which coordinated the anti-CAA agitations.

    Through lively involvement within the protests, the PFI was capable of venture itself as a distinguished Muslim organisation able to safeguarding the pursuits of the group.

    By projecting itself as a champion of Muslim causes, the PFI had been profitable in attracting new members through the years.

    Its function within the Delhi riots was additionally investigated by the ED. In current years, the peaceable ambiance of the nation was threatened by PFI, which has presence in 17 states, officers stated.

    The homicide of Praveen Nettaru in Bellare city on July 26 was one of many instances that uncovered the violent character of PFI.

    ALSO READ: Kerala PFI common secretary proclaims outfit has been disbanded; nabbed

    Nettaru, a member of Bhartiya Janata Yuva Morcha and an area businessman, was hacked to dying in typical ISIS type by bike-borne assailants and a lot of the accused within the case had affiliation with the PFI, the officers alleged.

    An investigation by native police claimed a chilling story of cold-blooded homicide by PFI cadres and SDPI members in retaliation to the killing of 19-year-old Masood, a Muslim migrant labourer.

    An inventory of RSS and Bajrang Dal members of the city was ready and some had been chosen to avenge Masood’s dying and Nettaru was chosen as he had commented on the halal concern, officers stated.

    Disputing the claims of the PFI of being a social organisation working for the uplift of Muslims, the officers stated quite the opposite, the bottom actions of PFI inform a very completely different story with a number of of its cadres have a violent historical past.

    Over 1400 prison instances had been registered in opposition to PFI cadres and its associates throughout the nation together with the UAPA, the Explosive Substances Act, Arms Act and different sections of the IPC.

    The officers claimed that interrogation of the accused in varied instances confirmed that the PFI would determine Muslim youths, from a poor or middle-class background, for bodily coaching throughout which they had been additionally inculcated with anti-Hindutva ideology.

    These cadres had been skilled in dealing with knife, sword, rods and how you can assault particular physique elements to inflict most harm.

    On July 4, Telangana Police registered a case in opposition to 27 individuals after a coaching camp for 200 PFI cadres was present in Nizamabad.

    The PFI had been attempting laborious to make inroads into Telangana to extend its cadre base and was enterprise social programmes like distributing college books and meals to the poor.

    The officers alleged there have been numerous cases of worldwide linkages of PFI with world terrorist teams the place a few of PFI activists, notably from Kerala, had joined ISIS and had participated in terror actions in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, which was the end result of steady radicalisation of its cadres.

    ALSO READ: Centre bans PFI and its associates for 5 years over terror hyperlinks

    While investigating the international funding path of PFI, the ED discovered that PFI had shaped district government committees in varied gulf international locations together with the UAE, Oman, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia.

    The India Fraternity Forum (IFF) and Indian Social Forum (ISF) had been PFI’s abroad fronts and had been to politically have interaction the expatriate Muslims to evolve to their ideology and organise funds for actions of PFI in India.

    Their government committees had been answerable for sending cash to PFI in India with out leaving any path.

    Funds had been typically collected in money and remitted to India both via hawala channels or camouflaged as remittances by sending it to the accounts of India-based family members and buddies of PFI’s members and sympathisers working overseas.

    Further, PFI had linkages with the dreaded Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh, which was concerned in a number of terror incidents in that nation.

    Also, 21 individuals having linkages with the PFI had joined the internationally banned ISIS terror group.

    Some Al-Qaeda within the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) coaching movies, depicting grotesque murders, had been recovered from the PFI cadre accused within the professor TJ Joseph hand-chopping case in 2010.

    PFI’s prime leaders had visited Turkey in 2018 and 2019 to attend programmes associated to Palestine.

    Its radical actions had attracted the eye of a global radical outfit specifically, the Party of Islamic Renewal, which had in April despatched a web-based letter to PFI on the Twitter, praising its actions and urging it to organise a ‘Revolutionary Army’ for Jihad in opposition to the Indian authorities.

    Pertinently, PFI has additionally been focusing on leaders of the Sufi Islamic Board, who had been campaigning consistently for a ban on the PFI.

    Officials stated since its inception in 2006, the PFI inspired its cadres to undertake actions that mar peace and concord amongst non secular teams and disrupt secular cloth of the nation.

    Giving a quick historical past, they stated on December 9, 2006, three south Indian Muslim fundamentalist teams — National Development Front/NDF, Kerala; Karnataka Forum for Dignity/KFD, Karnataka; and Manitha Neethi Pasarai/MNP, Tamil Nadu, rechristened ‘South India Council’ (a Bengaluru-based organisation floated by NDF in 2004) as ‘Popular Front of India’.

    Several members of PFI, together with its prime management, had been lively members of banned SIMI which included EM Abdul Rahiman (former Chairman), E Abubacker (Member, National Executive Council/NEC) and P Koya (Member, NEC).

    SIMI was banned in 2001 underneath the UAPA for anti-national actions. In their oath of allegiance, the PFI cadres swear to sacrifice their lives for the creation of Allah’s rule (Shariah).

    This oath was administered to the cadre solely when he was judged to have been suitably radicalised for the group.

    PFI recruits had been radicalised by the show of selective video clippings on emotive points like Babri Masjid demolition, communal riots in Gujarat and different elements of the nation, aimed toward instilling a way of Muslim persecution and mistrust in opposition to the State in addition to different communities.

    The officers claimed that in interrogation by the ED (December 2020), Rauf Sharief (former common secretary, CFI), had stated that PFI runs a secret aid wing, which really plans and executes revenge assaults on chosen RSS leaders.

    On the funding half, the officers stated that PFI receives doubtful funding from throughout the nation in addition to from overseas.

    PFI and its associates keep giant variety of financial institution accounts and obtain cash via its well-wishers/financers primarily based in India and overseas.

    It additionally collects Zakat (donations) from its rich supporters. Investigating its funds, the CBDT noticed its actions weren’t real.

    The supply of deposits in 36 financial institution accounts, out of 85 accounts of PFI, weren’t supported by the monetary profile of the account holders, and actions of PFI weren’t being carried out in keeping with the objects of the belief.

    The ED had raided a number of workplace premises and residences of PFI leaders in 2020 and 2021 for suspected cash laundering and arrested PFI leaders.

    During the probe, it was discovered the PFI had created a really well-organised construction in Gulf international locations for elevating of funds and the collected fund was despatched to India via Hawala.

    It was discovered PFI was working cash laundering fronts abroad, which included Munnar Villa vista venture in Kerala and Darbar restaurant in Abu Dhabi.

    ALSO READ: Welcoming PFI ban, Kerala politicians voice for RSS boycott

    In Munnar Villa vista venture, lakhs of unaccounted money had been infused and a few benami shareholders had been situated in UAE, who later transferred the shares to PFI leaders.

    The PFI was parking its illegally raised funds on this venture in order to make use of them as and when required.

    ED probe additionally revealed Anshad Badruddin (PFI, arrested by UP ATS in Lucknow in February 2021 with arms and explosives) had obtained greater than Rs 3 lakh from PFI (from 2018 to 2021) for prison actions.

    The officers stated the PFI’s accountant in the course of the investigation, within the aftermath of Delhi riots, advised his interrogators that PFI’s headquarters at Shaheen Bagh, Delhi saved crores of unaccounted cash, which they use with none accountability.

    Many instances of Hawala cash transactions had been being investigated by varied regulation enforcement companies in opposition to PFI.

    NEW DELHI: The PFI, banned on Wednesday, was indulging in “disturbing” the nation’s communal and secular cloth and “posing a grave threat” to nationwide safety by advancing its radical ideology and looking for to determine “political Islam” in India in addition to focusing on Hindu activists, officers stated.

    According to officers monitoring actions of the PFI and its members, a secret ‘service group’ was shaped, much like the ‘hit squads’ whose most important job was to supply safety to senior PFI leaders and likewise saved observe of Hindu leaders of their areas and plan motion in opposition to them.

    They alleged the PFI covertly organises coaching workout routines, and military-like drills, the place contributors are skilled to make use of pressure and violence in opposition to sure non secular teams, that are perceived as enemy of Islam.

    They additional alleged that since its inception, the PFI has been in opposition to Hindu organisations and its leaders and the group has a secret hit squad that engages in focused killings of Hindu activists and people allegedly indulging in blasphemy.

    The PFI is alleged to have been repeatedly concerned in anti-government propaganda and spreading the narrative that Muslims had been being persecuted in India.

    It had allegedly taken a lead in organising anti-CAA protests throughout December 2019-March 2020 and plenty of instances had been registered in opposition to them which included 51 in Uttar Pradesh alone the place the PFI-led platform, Samvidhan Suraksha Andolan, was amongst these which coordinated the anti-CAA agitations.

    Through lively involvement within the protests, the PFI was capable of venture itself as a distinguished Muslim organisation able to safeguarding the pursuits of the group.

    By projecting itself as a champion of Muslim causes, the PFI had been profitable in attracting new members through the years.

    Its function within the Delhi riots was additionally investigated by the ED. In current years, the peaceable ambiance of the nation was threatened by PFI, which has presence in 17 states, officers stated.

    The homicide of Praveen Nettaru in Bellare city on July 26 was one of many instances that uncovered the violent character of PFI.

    ALSO READ: Kerala PFI common secretary proclaims outfit has been disbanded; nabbed

    Nettaru, a member of Bhartiya Janata Yuva Morcha and an area businessman, was hacked to dying in typical ISIS type by bike-borne assailants and a lot of the accused within the case had affiliation with the PFI, the officers alleged.

    An investigation by native police claimed a chilling story of cold-blooded homicide by PFI cadres and SDPI members in retaliation to the killing of 19-year-old Masood, a Muslim migrant labourer.

    An inventory of RSS and Bajrang Dal members of the city was ready and some had been chosen to avenge Masood’s dying and Nettaru was chosen as he had commented on the halal concern, officers stated.

    Disputing the claims of the PFI of being a social organisation working for the uplift of Muslims, the officers stated quite the opposite, the bottom actions of PFI inform a very completely different story with a number of of its cadres have a violent historical past.

    Over 1400 prison instances had been registered in opposition to PFI cadres and its associates throughout the nation together with the UAPA, the Explosive Substances Act, Arms Act and different sections of the IPC.

    The officers claimed that interrogation of the accused in varied instances confirmed that the PFI would determine Muslim youths, from a poor or middle-class background, for bodily coaching throughout which they had been additionally inculcated with anti-Hindutva ideology.

    These cadres had been skilled in dealing with knife, sword, rods and how you can assault particular physique elements to inflict most harm.

    On July 4, Telangana Police registered a case in opposition to 27 individuals after a coaching camp for 200 PFI cadres was present in Nizamabad.

    The PFI had been attempting laborious to make inroads into Telangana to extend its cadre base and was enterprise social programmes like distributing college books and meals to the poor.

    The officers alleged there have been numerous cases of worldwide linkages of PFI with world terrorist teams the place a few of PFI activists, notably from Kerala, had joined ISIS and had participated in terror actions in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, which was the end result of steady radicalisation of its cadres.

    ALSO READ: Centre bans PFI and its associates for 5 years over terror hyperlinks

    While investigating the international funding path of PFI, the ED discovered that PFI had shaped district government committees in varied gulf international locations together with the UAE, Oman, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia.

    The India Fraternity Forum (IFF) and Indian Social Forum (ISF) had been PFI’s abroad fronts and had been to politically have interaction the expatriate Muslims to evolve to their ideology and organise funds for actions of PFI in India.

    Their government committees had been answerable for sending cash to PFI in India with out leaving any path.

    Funds had been typically collected in money and remitted to India both via hawala channels or camouflaged as remittances by sending it to the accounts of India-based family members and buddies of PFI’s members and sympathisers working overseas.

    Further, PFI had linkages with the dreaded Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh, which was concerned in a number of terror incidents in that nation.

    Also, 21 individuals having linkages with the PFI had joined the internationally banned ISIS terror group.

    Some Al-Qaeda within the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) coaching movies, depicting grotesque murders, had been recovered from the PFI cadre accused within the professor TJ Joseph hand-chopping case in 2010.

    PFI’s prime leaders had visited Turkey in 2018 and 2019 to attend programmes associated to Palestine.

    Its radical actions had attracted the eye of a global radical outfit specifically, the Party of Islamic Renewal, which had in April despatched a web-based letter to PFI on the Twitter, praising its actions and urging it to organise a ‘Revolutionary Army’ for Jihad in opposition to the Indian authorities.

    Pertinently, PFI has additionally been focusing on leaders of the Sufi Islamic Board, who had been campaigning consistently for a ban on the PFI.

    Officials stated since its inception in 2006, the PFI inspired its cadres to undertake actions that mar peace and concord amongst non secular teams and disrupt secular cloth of the nation.

    Giving a quick historical past, they stated on December 9, 2006, three south Indian Muslim fundamentalist teams — National Development Front/NDF, Kerala; Karnataka Forum for Dignity/KFD, Karnataka; and Manitha Neethi Pasarai/MNP, Tamil Nadu, rechristened ‘South India Council’ (a Bengaluru-based organisation floated by NDF in 2004) as ‘Popular Front of India’.

    Several members of PFI, together with its prime management, had been lively members of banned SIMI which included EM Abdul Rahiman (former Chairman), E Abubacker (Member, National Executive Council/NEC) and P Koya (Member, NEC).

    SIMI was banned in 2001 underneath the UAPA for anti-national actions. In their oath of allegiance, the PFI cadres swear to sacrifice their lives for the creation of Allah’s rule (Shariah).

    This oath was administered to the cadre solely when he was judged to have been suitably radicalised for the group.

    PFI recruits had been radicalised by the show of selective video clippings on emotive points like Babri Masjid demolition, communal riots in Gujarat and different elements of the nation, aimed toward instilling a way of Muslim persecution and mistrust in opposition to the State in addition to different communities.

    The officers claimed that in interrogation by the ED (December 2020), Rauf Sharief (former common secretary, CFI), had stated that PFI runs a secret aid wing, which really plans and executes revenge assaults on chosen RSS leaders.

    On the funding half, the officers stated that PFI receives doubtful funding from throughout the nation in addition to from overseas.

    PFI and its associates keep giant variety of financial institution accounts and obtain cash via its well-wishers/financers primarily based in India and overseas.

    It additionally collects Zakat (donations) from its rich supporters. Investigating its funds, the CBDT noticed its actions weren’t real.

    The supply of deposits in 36 financial institution accounts, out of 85 accounts of PFI, weren’t supported by the monetary profile of the account holders, and actions of PFI weren’t being carried out in keeping with the objects of the belief.

    The ED had raided a number of workplace premises and residences of PFI leaders in 2020 and 2021 for suspected cash laundering and arrested PFI leaders.

    During the probe, it was discovered the PFI had created a really well-organised construction in Gulf international locations for elevating of funds and the collected fund was despatched to India via Hawala.

    It was discovered PFI was working cash laundering fronts abroad, which included Munnar Villa vista venture in Kerala and Darbar restaurant in Abu Dhabi.

    ALSO READ: Welcoming PFI ban, Kerala politicians voice for RSS boycott

    In Munnar Villa vista venture, lakhs of unaccounted money had been infused and a few benami shareholders had been situated in UAE, who later transferred the shares to PFI leaders.

    The PFI was parking its illegally raised funds on this venture in order to make use of them as and when required.

    ED probe additionally revealed Anshad Badruddin (PFI, arrested by UP ATS in Lucknow in February 2021 with arms and explosives) had obtained greater than Rs 3 lakh from PFI (from 2018 to 2021) for prison actions.

    The officers stated the PFI’s accountant in the course of the investigation, within the aftermath of Delhi riots, advised his interrogators that PFI’s headquarters at Shaheen Bagh, Delhi saved crores of unaccounted cash, which they use with none accountability.

    Many instances of Hawala cash transactions had been being investigated by varied regulation enforcement companies in opposition to PFI.

  • Ban on PFI: Profiles of a few of its prime leaders and workplace bearers

    By PTI

    NEW DELHI: The Centre has banned the Popular Front of India (PFI) below the stringent provisions of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act by issuing a gazette notification late Tuesday night time.

    Here are profiles of a few of its prime leaders and workplace bearers who’ve additionally been arrested throughout nationwide raids carried out towards them this month:

    1. O M A Salam, PFI chairman Salam, an worker of the Kerala State Electricity Board, has been “suspended” and is dealing with departmental inquiry owing to his hyperlinks with the PFI. He can be related to the Rehab India Foundation (RIF), alleged to be a entrance of the PFI.

    2. Anis Ahmed, nationwide normal secretary, who studied in Bengaluru is a crucial “cog” for increasing the cyber actions and presence of the PFI. He was working with a worldwide telecommunications firm, from the place he was suspended not too long ago, and probe companies discovered him to be “proactive” on social media, and information channels and for making feedback/reactions on present points and is seen vocal/essential in regards to the central authorities’s insurance policies and governance.

    3. P Koya, nationwide government council member A former “active” member of the banned SIMI, he went to Qatar in 1986 to work at a personal firm for 3 years. He later labored as a lecturer at Kozhikode University in Kerala. Koya acted because the director of the Islamic Youth Centre (IYC), Kozhikode propagates “Islamic ideology, which actually nurtures Islamic fundamentalism and Muslim militancy”, the probe companies say.

    4. E M Abdur Rahiman, nationwide vice-chairman Rahiman is a retired librarian from the Cochin University of Science and Technology positioned in Ernakulam district of Kerala. He has been a former president of SIMI. Federal companies say he’s a “very influential leader of PFI and also a decision maker”.

    5. Afsar Pasha, nationwide secretary Pasha, a businessman, is an “active member” of the PFI since its formation in 2006.

    6. Abdul Wahit Sait, member of the nationwide government council He hails from the Cutchi Memon neighborhood primarily based in Shivajinagar, Bengaluru, and is a “founding member” of the novel Islamic organisation (PFI) and runs a software program options enterprise.

    7. Mohammed Shakib alias Shakif, nationwide secretary (media and public relations) A founding member of the PFI, he owns an actual property enterprise.

    8. Minarul Sheikh, president, PFI West Bengal. A Ph.D. from Aligarh Muslim University, he conducts teaching courses and does analysis work.

    9. Mohammed Asif, president, PFI Rajasthan He initially joined Campus Front of India (CFI) whereas pursuing commencement and have become its nationwide normal secretary. Was appointed PFI state vice-president in 2013-14. He may be very “active” and “responsible” for the unfold of organisation throughout the state in a proactive method, the companies mentioned.

    NEW DELHI: The Centre has banned the Popular Front of India (PFI) below the stringent provisions of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act by issuing a gazette notification late Tuesday night time.

    Here are profiles of a few of its prime leaders and workplace bearers who’ve additionally been arrested throughout nationwide raids carried out towards them this month:

    1. O M A Salam, PFI chairman Salam, an worker of the Kerala State Electricity Board, has been “suspended” and is dealing with departmental inquiry owing to his hyperlinks with the PFI. He can be related to the Rehab India Foundation (RIF), alleged to be a entrance of the PFI.

    2. Anis Ahmed, nationwide normal secretary, who studied in Bengaluru is a crucial “cog” for increasing the cyber actions and presence of the PFI. He was working with a worldwide telecommunications firm, from the place he was suspended not too long ago, and probe companies discovered him to be “proactive” on social media, and information channels and for making feedback/reactions on present points and is seen vocal/essential in regards to the central authorities’s insurance policies and governance.

    3. P Koya, nationwide government council member A former “active” member of the banned SIMI, he went to Qatar in 1986 to work at a personal firm for 3 years. He later labored as a lecturer at Kozhikode University in Kerala. Koya acted because the director of the Islamic Youth Centre (IYC), Kozhikode propagates “Islamic ideology, which actually nurtures Islamic fundamentalism and Muslim militancy”, the probe companies say.

    4. E M Abdur Rahiman, nationwide vice-chairman Rahiman is a retired librarian from the Cochin University of Science and Technology positioned in Ernakulam district of Kerala. He has been a former president of SIMI. Federal companies say he’s a “very influential leader of PFI and also a decision maker”.

    5. Afsar Pasha, nationwide secretary Pasha, a businessman, is an “active member” of the PFI since its formation in 2006.

    6. Abdul Wahit Sait, member of the nationwide government council He hails from the Cutchi Memon neighborhood primarily based in Shivajinagar, Bengaluru, and is a “founding member” of the novel Islamic organisation (PFI) and runs a software program options enterprise.

    7. Mohammed Shakib alias Shakif, nationwide secretary (media and public relations) A founding member of the PFI, he owns an actual property enterprise.

    8. Minarul Sheikh, president, PFI West Bengal. A Ph.D. from Aligarh Muslim University, he conducts teaching courses and does analysis work.

    9. Mohammed Asif, president, PFI Rajasthan He initially joined Campus Front of India (CFI) whereas pursuing commencement and have become its nationwide normal secretary. Was appointed PFI state vice-president in 2013-14. He may be very “active” and “responsible” for the unfold of organisation throughout the state in a proactive method, the companies mentioned.

  • Silence is best at instances, says Kerala professor whose hand was chopped off by PFI activists

    By PTI

    KOCHI: Professor TJ Joseph, whose hand was chopped off by the activists of Popular Front of India for alleged blasphemy 12 years in the past, on Wednesday declined to answer the Centre’s ban on the novel Islamic outfit, saying observing silence was higher at instances than at all times speaking.

    Asked for his response by the media, a visibly calm and composed professor mentioned he, as a citizen of the nation, has a transparent opinion in regards to the union authorities’s transfer, however he doesn’t wish to reply now as he was a “victim” within the case.

    The banning of PFI was a political determination and one thing associated to nationwide safety and let the political leaders, organizational representatives and different such impartial folks reply to the event, he mentioned.

    Observing silence was higher at instances than at all times speaking, Joseph mentioned, including that he felt that it was higher to not react for the time being.

    “So I am not reacting. Many of the victims of the PFI’s attacks are no longer alive. I would like to observe silence in solidarity with those victims,” he added.

    ALSO READ | Centre bans PFI and its associates for 5 years over terror hyperlinks

    A former lecturer of Malayalam literature at Newman College in Thodupuzha, Joseph was attacked and his proper hand was chopped off allegedly by activists of the Popular Front of India in July 2010 whereas he, alongside together with his mom and sister, was returning house from church.

    The attackers informed him that he was being punished for the alleged sacrilegious undertones of one of many questions he had framed in an examination.

    The case was investigated by NIA and a particular NIA court docket in 2015 had convicted 13 folks, owing allegiance to the PFI.

    Joseph had confronted one other tragedy when his 48-year-old spouse Shalomi Joseph died by suicide in 2014.

    His autobiography, ‘Attupokatha Ormakal’ (Unforgettable Memories), a chilling account of the spiritual extremism and the ordeal he underwent after the stunning incident in his life, lately gained the Kerala Sahitya Akademi award.

    It was additionally translated into English titled ‘A Thousand Cuts: An Innocent Question And Deadly Answers’.

    KOCHI: Professor TJ Joseph, whose hand was chopped off by the activists of Popular Front of India for alleged blasphemy 12 years in the past, on Wednesday declined to answer the Centre’s ban on the novel Islamic outfit, saying observing silence was higher at instances than at all times speaking.

    Asked for his response by the media, a visibly calm and composed professor mentioned he, as a citizen of the nation, has a transparent opinion in regards to the union authorities’s transfer, however he doesn’t wish to reply now as he was a “victim” within the case.

    The banning of PFI was a political determination and one thing associated to nationwide safety and let the political leaders, organizational representatives and different such impartial folks reply to the event, he mentioned.

    Observing silence was higher at instances than at all times speaking, Joseph mentioned, including that he felt that it was higher to not react for the time being.

    “So I am not reacting. Many of the victims of the PFI’s attacks are no longer alive. I would like to observe silence in solidarity with those victims,” he added.

    ALSO READ | Centre bans PFI and its associates for 5 years over terror hyperlinks

    A former lecturer of Malayalam literature at Newman College in Thodupuzha, Joseph was attacked and his proper hand was chopped off allegedly by activists of the Popular Front of India in July 2010 whereas he, alongside together with his mom and sister, was returning house from church.

    The attackers informed him that he was being punished for the alleged sacrilegious undertones of one of many questions he had framed in an examination.

    The case was investigated by NIA and a particular NIA court docket in 2015 had convicted 13 folks, owing allegiance to the PFI.

    Joseph had confronted one other tragedy when his 48-year-old spouse Shalomi Joseph died by suicide in 2014.

    His autobiography, ‘Attupokatha Ormakal’ (Unforgettable Memories), a chilling account of the spiritual extremism and the ordeal he underwent after the stunning incident in his life, lately gained the Kerala Sahitya Akademi award.

    It was additionally translated into English titled ‘A Thousand Cuts: An Innocent Question And Deadly Answers’.

  • RSS ought to have been banned earlier than PFI, says Lalu Prasad

    By PTI

    PATNA/NEW DELHI: RJD president Lalu Prasad on Wednesday referred to as the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh a “Hindu extremist organisation” that deserved to be banned.

    Prasad made the comment in reply to queries from journalists concerning the Union Home Ministry’s ban on the Popular Front of India and several other of its associates beneath a stringent anti-terror legislation.

    “They keep raising the bogey of PFI. It is the RSS, which is all about Hindu extremism (‘kattarpanth’), which deserves to be banned first,” mentioned the septuagenarian with attribute candor.

    Prasad, who’s away in Delhi in connection along with his occasion’s organisational polls, reiterated that the 2024 Lok Sabha elections will see a “wipe out” (‘safaya ho jayega’) of the BJP, the political offshoot of the RSS, which is ruling on the Centre for the second consecutive time period.

    The ailing RJD chief replied with an emphatic “bilkul” (in fact) when requested whether or not he hoped that his son Tejashwi Yadav, at present the deputy CM of Bihar, will at some point rule the state.

    However, the staunch loyalist of Congress chief Sonia Gandhi gave a guarded response when requested if he foresaw a scenario the place Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar will “run the country” (‘desh ko sambhalenge’).

    “‘Sab log mil kar sambhalenge’ (we all will run the show together),” mentioned Prasad, who together with Kumar, had met Gandhi on Sunday.

    “We had fruitful talks with Sonia Gandhi. There will be more meetings as the situation evolves,” he mentioned.

    The RJD supremo additionally frowned upon many BJP leaders elevating questions as to why images of the assembly with Gandhi weren’t launched, and whether or not Nitish and he returned after an extended wait, with out having met her.

    “We had gone to meet a lady in her chamber. Was it a photo session? We must have spoken for an hour or so and they claim there was no meeting,” the previous Bihar CM mentioned.

    PATNA/NEW DELHI: RJD president Lalu Prasad on Wednesday referred to as the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh a “Hindu extremist organisation” that deserved to be banned.

    Prasad made the comment in reply to queries from journalists concerning the Union Home Ministry’s ban on the Popular Front of India and several other of its associates beneath a stringent anti-terror legislation.

    “They keep raising the bogey of PFI. It is the RSS, which is all about Hindu extremism (‘kattarpanth’), which deserves to be banned first,” mentioned the septuagenarian with attribute candor.

    Prasad, who’s away in Delhi in connection along with his occasion’s organisational polls, reiterated that the 2024 Lok Sabha elections will see a “wipe out” (‘safaya ho jayega’) of the BJP, the political offshoot of the RSS, which is ruling on the Centre for the second consecutive time period.

    The ailing RJD chief replied with an emphatic “bilkul” (in fact) when requested whether or not he hoped that his son Tejashwi Yadav, at present the deputy CM of Bihar, will at some point rule the state.

    However, the staunch loyalist of Congress chief Sonia Gandhi gave a guarded response when requested if he foresaw a scenario the place Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar will “run the country” (‘desh ko sambhalenge’).

    “‘Sab log mil kar sambhalenge’ (we all will run the show together),” mentioned Prasad, who together with Kumar, had met Gandhi on Sunday.

    “We had fruitful talks with Sonia Gandhi. There will be more meetings as the situation evolves,” he mentioned.

    The RJD supremo additionally frowned upon many BJP leaders elevating questions as to why images of the assembly with Gandhi weren’t launched, and whether or not Nitish and he returned after an extended wait, with out having met her.

    “We had gone to meet a lady in her chamber. Was it a photo session? We must have spoken for an hour or so and they claim there was no meeting,” the previous Bihar CM mentioned.

  • Several PFI activists arrested in NIA spherical two raids throughout states

    By PTI

    NEW DELHI: The Assam Police on Tuesday launched one other operation towards the Popular Front of India (PFI) in varied districts of the state.

    Police has arrested 25 PFI activists in contemporary crackdown in Assam. Hiren Nath, ADGP (Special Branch) of Assam Police instructed ANI that a number of folks have been detained by police in varied districts. Hitesh Ch. Roy, Superintendent of Police of Kamrup district stated that the Kamrup District Police on Tuesday detained 4 individuals linked with PFI from the Nagarbera space.

    Assam | 4 individuals linked with PFI detained from the Nagarbera space at present. Our operation towards PFI is on in lots of elements of the district: Hiren Nath, ADGP (Special Branch) Assam pic.twitter.com/qTUIEz8PSk

    — ANI (@ANI) September 27, 2022

    “Our operation against PFI is on in many parts of the district,” Hitesh Ch. Roy stated. Earlier, Assam Police arrested 11 leaders of staff of PFI from varied elements of the state and one from Delhi.

    Continuing the crackdown on the organisation, the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) of the Maharashtra Police arrested a person on Monday in reference to the nationwide crackdown on PFI. The arrested accused has been recognized as Mohd Abed Ali.

    ALSO READ | Nearly 106 arrested in NIA’s ‘largest-ever’ raids in 15 states over terror funding prices

    The UP Police Special Task Form (STF) additionally arrested one individual yesterday. The STF arrested an individual recognized as Abdul Majeed from the Vibhutikhand bus stand from Lucknow underneath the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 (UAPA) when he was attempting to go away town, police stated.

    Earlier, the Karnataka unit of the Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI), a political wing of the Popular Front of India, on Monday condemned the raids carried out by the National Investigation Agency towards its members, and requested why the central company had not but carried out raids on the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and its affiliated organizations for “acts of communal hatred”.

    The NIA had arrested over 106 members of the PFI throughout its largest-ever raids unfold throughout 15 states on September 22.

    Addressing a press convention right here, State Principal Secretary of SDPI, Bhaskar stated, “We condemn the unconstitutional raids by NIA. Why hasn’t the RSS been raided yet? We say that RSS is a non-registered organisation as well as a terrorist organisation. PFI is a registered organisation”.

    Terming the NIA raids as a “ploy” to suppress a “strong voice”, the SDPI chief claimed that the federal government couldn’t show a single case towards the political outfit.

    ALSO READ | PFI raids: Lawyer affiliation alleges govt of weaponising businesses   

    “This is a ploy to suppress a strong voice. They have tried this for years, but they couldn’t prove a single case against SDPI. However, the communal fascist government is constantly carrying out such attacks to create hatred among the people against SDPI and PFI organizations,” the SDPI chief stated.

    “The biggest dangerous organization in this country is RSS and its organizations like Bajrang Dal, Vishwa Hindu Parishad, Sri Ram Sena, etc. They are involved in acts of communal hatred. But they are never attacked by NIA,” the SDPI chief alleged.

    The PFI was launched in Kerala in 2006 after merging three Muslim organizations floated after the Babri Masjid demolition in 1992 – the National Development Front of Kerala, Karnataka Forum for Dignity and Manitha Neethi Pasari of Tamil Nadu. After the demolition of the Babri mosque, many fringe outfits had surfaced in south India and PFI was fashioned after merging a few of them.

    Five PFI activists have been arrested from the Kottayam and Kollam districts of Kerala for allegedly participating in violent actions in the course of the state-wide hartal known as by the organisation on September 23 pursuant to nation-wide raids on their places of work and arrests of their leaders.

    ALSO READ | PFI on radar: Raids proceed on outlets, companies in Kannur

    Four activists of the Popular Front of India (PFI) had been arrested from Kottayam on Monday for breaking the glass of a bakery and damaging a KSRTC bus, police stated. From Kollam, a PFI activist was arrested on Monday for allegedly ramming right into a police motorcycle along with his two-wheeler in his bid to flee the clutches of the police personnel.

    The police had been attempting to catch him as he was allegedly intimidating and abusing these current alongside the Kottiyam-Pallimukku stretch of nationwide freeway 66 on September 23, they stated.

    In Udupi district, the police have taken 4 folks in custody in reference to varied instances. The raids had been carried out at Hoode, Gangolli and Byndoor within the district. The detained individuals are from Byndoor.

    NEW DELHI: The Assam Police on Tuesday launched one other operation towards the Popular Front of India (PFI) in varied districts of the state.

    Police has arrested 25 PFI activists in contemporary crackdown in Assam. Hiren Nath, ADGP (Special Branch) of Assam Police instructed ANI that a number of folks have been detained by police in varied districts. Hitesh Ch. Roy, Superintendent of Police of Kamrup district stated that the Kamrup District Police on Tuesday detained 4 individuals linked with PFI from the Nagarbera space.

    Assam | 4 individuals linked with PFI detained from the Nagarbera space at present. Our operation towards PFI is on in lots of elements of the district: Hiren Nath, ADGP (Special Branch) Assam pic.twitter.com/qTUIEz8PSk
    — ANI (@ANI) September 27, 2022
    “Our operation against PFI is on in many parts of the district,” Hitesh Ch. Roy stated. Earlier, Assam Police arrested 11 leaders of staff of PFI from varied elements of the state and one from Delhi.

    Continuing the crackdown on the organisation, the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) of the Maharashtra Police arrested a person on Monday in reference to the nationwide crackdown on PFI. The arrested accused has been recognized as Mohd Abed Ali.

    ALSO READ | Nearly 106 arrested in NIA’s ‘largest-ever’ raids in 15 states over terror funding prices

    The UP Police Special Task Form (STF) additionally arrested one individual yesterday. The STF arrested an individual recognized as Abdul Majeed from the Vibhutikhand bus stand from Lucknow underneath the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 (UAPA) when he was attempting to go away town, police stated.

    Earlier, the Karnataka unit of the Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI), a political wing of the Popular Front of India, on Monday condemned the raids carried out by the National Investigation Agency towards its members, and requested why the central company had not but carried out raids on the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and its affiliated organizations for “acts of communal hatred”.

    The NIA had arrested over 106 members of the PFI throughout its largest-ever raids unfold throughout 15 states on September 22.

    Addressing a press convention right here, State Principal Secretary of SDPI, Bhaskar stated, “We condemn the unconstitutional raids by NIA. Why hasn’t the RSS been raided yet? We say that RSS is a non-registered organisation as well as a terrorist organisation. PFI is a registered organisation”.

    Terming the NIA raids as a “ploy” to suppress a “strong voice”, the SDPI chief claimed that the federal government couldn’t show a single case towards the political outfit.

    ALSO READ | PFI raids: Lawyer affiliation alleges govt of weaponising businesses   

    “This is a ploy to suppress a strong voice. They have tried this for years, but they couldn’t prove a single case against SDPI. However, the communal fascist government is constantly carrying out such attacks to create hatred among the people against SDPI and PFI organizations,” the SDPI chief stated.

    “The biggest dangerous organization in this country is RSS and its organizations like Bajrang Dal, Vishwa Hindu Parishad, Sri Ram Sena, etc. They are involved in acts of communal hatred. But they are never attacked by NIA,” the SDPI chief alleged.

    The PFI was launched in Kerala in 2006 after merging three Muslim organizations floated after the Babri Masjid demolition in 1992 – the National Development Front of Kerala, Karnataka Forum for Dignity and Manitha Neethi Pasari of Tamil Nadu. After the demolition of the Babri mosque, many fringe outfits had surfaced in south India and PFI was fashioned after merging a few of them.

    Five PFI activists have been arrested from the Kottayam and Kollam districts of Kerala for allegedly participating in violent actions in the course of the state-wide hartal known as by the organisation on September 23 pursuant to nation-wide raids on their places of work and arrests of their leaders.

    ALSO READ | PFI on radar: Raids proceed on outlets, companies in Kannur

    Four activists of the Popular Front of India (PFI) had been arrested from Kottayam on Monday for breaking the glass of a bakery and damaging a KSRTC bus, police stated. From Kollam, a PFI activist was arrested on Monday for allegedly ramming right into a police motorcycle along with his two-wheeler in his bid to flee the clutches of the police personnel.

    The police had been attempting to catch him as he was allegedly intimidating and abusing these current alongside the Kottiyam-Pallimukku stretch of nationwide freeway 66 on September 23, they stated.

    In Udupi district, the police have taken 4 folks in custody in reference to varied instances. The raids had been carried out at Hoode, Gangolli and Byndoor within the district. The detained individuals are from Byndoor.