Over 170 PFI activists detained across India
The HinduSimultaneous searches were conducted by police teams at multiple locations in seven States and a Union Territory on Tuesday during the second round of crackdown on Popular Front of India leaders and activists. The searches were carried out in Assam, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Kerala, Delhi and Karnataka based on intelligence inputs and the information gathered during the first National Investigation Agency-led clamp down on 15 States on September 22. On Tuesday, about 25 PFI activists were arrested from different parts of Assam, while 25 were held from Maharashtra’s Aurangabad, Thane, Nanded, Parbhani, Malegaon and Amravati. The NIA had searched 93 locations and arrested 45 PFI leaders and activists in connection with five cases registered following inputs and evidence that they were allegedly involved in terror funding/activities, organising training camps for providing armed training and radicalising people to join banned organisations.