56 locations related to PFI raided in Kerala, details
Op IndiaThe National Investigation Agency on Thursday carried out searches at 56 locations in Kerala in the Popular Front of India conspiracy case, sources said. The searches are still going on at the premises and offices of several suspects having links with cadres of PFI, an organisation banned by the Ministry of Home Affairs in September this year with its associates, and affiliates for a period of five years under Unlawful Activities Act, 1967 by declaring it as an unlawful association. The raids started early on Thursday in coordination with state police following specific inputs against PFI cadres who are accused of their involvement in several terrorist acts and the murder of several persons, including Sanjith, V-Ramalingam, Nandu, Abhimanyu, Bibin, Sharath, R.Rudresh, Praveen Puyari, and Sasi Kumar. The MHA had earlier said that the criminal activities and brutal murders have been carried out by the PFI cadres for the sole objective of “disturbing public peace and tranquillity and creating a reign of terror in the public mind”. Some of these PFI cadres linked to ISIS have been killed in these conflict theatres and some have been arrested by State Police and Central Agencies also the PFI has linkages with Jamat-ul-Muyahideen Bangladesh, a proscribed terrorist organization”.