NEW DELHI: Popular Front of India (PFI) cadres had been discovered concerned in scary and radicalizing impressionable Muslim youth, recruiting them in the banned outfit and imparting them weapons coaching in its particularly organized coaching camps, says the National Investigation Agency’s recent charge-sheet in the Nizamabad case. The company filed the supplementary cost sheet in a particular NIA Court in Hyderabad naming 5 accused Shaik Raheem alias Abdul Raheem, Shaik Vahaid Ali alias Abdul Wahed Ali, Jafrulla Khan Pathan, Shaik Riyaz Ahmed and Abdul Waris. They have been charge-sheeted below sections 120B, 153A of IPC and Sections 13(1)(b), 18, 18 A and 18 B of the UA (P) Act, 1967.
Earlier in December 2022, the NIA had filed its first charge-sheet in opposition to 11 accused in the case after taking up the investigations from Telangana Police in August 2022. The case had initially been registered on July 4 final yr by Telangana Police. The company stated it filed the cost sheet on completion of additional investigations into the case pertaining to the felony conspiracy hatched by the PFI leaders and cadres to recruit and radicalise youth and organise coaching camps to place them via arms coaching for carrying acts of terror and violence.
The NIA stated the accused individuals chargesheeted are “trained PFI cadres who were found involved in provoking and radicalizing impressionable Muslim youth, recruiting them into the PFI and imparting weapons training in specifically organized PFI training camps”. “The aim was to carry out violent terrorist activities, in furtherance of the conspiracy to establish Islamic rule in the country by 2047,” stated the anti-terror company.
“These PFI cadres misinterpreted non secular texts and proclaimed {that a} violent type of Jihad was essential to alleviate the sufferings of Muslims in India. Once recruited into the PFI, the Muslim youth had been despatched to the coaching camps organized by the accused PFI cadres the place they had been skilled in using deadly weapons to kill their `targets` by attacking their important physique components corresponding to throat, abdomen and head.
“The PFI and its many affiliates were declared an `unlawful association` by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) in September last year after its involvement in violent activities came to light during investigations carried out by various state police units and national agencies.
