PFI’s alleged links in Turkey and Qatar being probed
The HinduThe enforcement agencies are probing the alleged links of the now-banned Popular Front of India with the extremist elements in Turkey, and the others who extended financial support to the outfit from Qatar to carry out its activities in India. there are also reports that its national executive council members E.M. Rahiman and P. Koya were allegedly hosted in Istanbul by an al-Qaeda linked charity organisation,” said an agency official. In a case later taken over by the National Investigation Agency, the Delhi Police Special Cell had arrested Mohammed Ismail Mohideen, a resident of Kannur in Kerala, along with another person after he was deported by the Turkish authorities in July 2017. In another ISIS-related case registered in December 2017, the Kerala police got a tip-off that some young men had migrated to Syria and were planning to join the ISIS. In yet another such case, two of the 15 accused persons -- Omar Al Hindi aka Muthukka and Safvan -- had alleged links with the PFI.