ED Conducts Raids Against PFI-Linked SDPI In Four States

The Enforcement Directorate is conducting raids on the Social Democratic Party of India, an organization linked to the Popular Front of India. The fresh raids on Thursday comes as part of the agency's ongoing money-laundering probe against the SDPI, the political outfit of the banned Popular Front of India. The ED had carried out the first round of searches in the case in the first week of March and arrested Social Democratic Party of India national president M K Faizy. The ED had claimed before a court while seeking Faizy's remand that there existed an organic relation between the two outfits and that the PFI was carrying out its criminal activities through the political party. Seeking Faizy's remand earlier this week, the ED told the court that the PFI and the SDPI were organically linked and the latter was nothing but the political front of the former and was funded and controlled by it.