Popular Front Of India Faces Round 2 Of Raids Across States: 10 Points

Investigative companies are carrying out procedures across Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Assam, Delhi, Maharashtra, Telangana, as well as Uttar Pradesh.

PFI has actually been charged of terror funding, offering weapons training to Muslim young people, as well as radicalising them to sign up with terrorist organisations. The action is apparently based upon knowledge inputs provided by the National Investigation Firm.

The special cell of Delhi Cops is conducting raids in several locations consisting of Rohini, Nizamuddin, Jamia, Shaheen Bagh, as well as central Delhi in a joint, coordinated action. Thirty individuals have actually been apprehended in the national resources up until now, highest in any kind of state today up until now.

In a late-night procedure, the Thane Criminal offense Branch jailed four PFI protestors from the Mumbra suburb for presumably enjoying illegal tasks, promoting enmity amongst neighborhoods, as well as waging a war versus the nation. In Maharashtra, there are reports of raids in Aurangabad as well as Solapur too.

The neighborhood cops in Karnataka, in an early morning raid, took control of 40 PFI participants into safekeeping. Your houses of PFI leaders were raided across the state including in Bagalkote, Bidar, Chamarajanagar, Chitradurga, Ramanagara, Mangaluru, Koppal, Bellari, Kolar, Bengaluru, Mysuru, and also Vijayapura districts. More than 75 workers of PFI and also Social Democratic Event of India (SDPI), a political wing of the Popular Front of India, were additionally taken right into preventive custody in Karnataka, expecting violent objections.

21 PFI workers have actually been detained from throughout Madhya Pradesh until now.

In Assam, at the very least 25 PFI leaders have actually been apprehended across 5 central as well as lower Assam districts in an early morning raid by the state police. They were picked up from Nagarbera location of Kamrup area, Goalpara, Barpeta, Dhubri, Baksa, and also Darrang. There are records of raids in Udalguri and also Karimganj also. Earlier, Assam Cops had actually detained 11 leaders and workers of PFI from various parts of the state, and one from Delhi.

The UP Police Unique Task Kind (STF) also jailed someone yesterday. The STF apprehended an individual determined as Abdul Majeed from the Vibhutikhand bus stand from Lucknow under the Unlawful Tasks (Prevention) Act, 1967 (UAPA) when he was attempting to leave the city, authorities stated.

The NIA had apprehended over 106 participants of the PFI throughout its largest-ever raids spread throughout 15 states on September 22. Complying with those raids, Karnataka Home Preacher Araga Jnanendra had actually said the PFI will certainly be prohibited in the state and the process has actually been begun.

Formed in 2006, the PFI claims to work for the empowerment of marginalised areas in India and also support the civil liberties of Dalits, Muslims, and also tribals. Police, however, claim PFI is promoting extreme Islam as well as recruiting for horror clothing. The organisation came under the scanner of central firms after its participants sliced off the hand of a college professor in Kerala for supposedly hurting religious beliefs.