Kerala NIA raidThe National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday (December 29) conducted massive searches at around 56 places in Kerala. According to sources, the offices and houses of the second rank leaders of Popular Front of India (PFI) were searched today.
These leaders were active even after the organization was completely banned. Sources said the NIA conducted early morning searches in connection with a case related to a criminal conspiracy hatched by the banned Popular Front of India to carry out terrorist activities in the country.
Search operations are on in Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam, Ernakulam, Kozhikode, Idukki and other places in Kerala.
The PFI was banned in September 2022 by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) along with its affiliates and associates under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 for a period of five years, declaring it an unlawful association.
The raids began in the early hours of Thursday in coordination with the state police following specific inputs against PFI cadres who are accused of involvement in several terrorist activities and killing of several persons including Sanjith (Kerala, Nov 2021), V-Ramalingam (Tamil Nadu, Tamil Nadu) There is an allegation. 2019), Nandu (Kerala, 2021), Abhimanyu (Kerala, 2018), Bibin (Kerala, 2017), Sharath (Kamatak, 2017), R. Kumar (Tamil Nadu, 2016).
The MHA had earlier said that the criminal activities and brutal killings have been carried out by the PFI cadres with the sole objective of “disturbing public peace and tranquility and creating a reign of terror in the minds of the public”.
The MHA also noted “PFI’s international links with global terrorist groups”, and that some of the organization’s activists have joined the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and participated in terrorist activities in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. Is.
Some of these PFI cadres linked to ISIS have been killed in these conflict theaters and some have been arrested by state police and central agencies, PFI has links with Jamaat-ul-Muyahideen Bangladesh (JMB), a banned terrorist organization. So far this year, searches were conducted at more than 150 locations across the country against PFI cadres.
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