New Delhi: In a significant breakthrough, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested one other Popular Front of India (PFI) member who was needed within the grotesque homicide of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Srinivasan in Kerala’s Palakkad district in April final yr. The accused, Saheer KV, was absconding because the crime and was carrying a reward of Rs 4,00,000. An NIA Fugitive Tracking Team (FTT) tracked him to a relative’s home in Palakkad district and arrested him. A resident of Palakkad, Saheer was a part of the PFI Assault and Protection Team that had carried out the focused killing. Saheer was additionally answerable for offering safety to the primary assailants of Srinivasan.
NIA investigations confirmed that the accused, who was PFI’s Pattambi Area President, was concerned in varied conspiracies of the PFI leaders to get rid of Srinivasan, as a part of the banned outfit’s larger scheme to create terror amongst members of a specific group and to ascertain Islamic Rule in India by 2047.
Earlier on March 17, the NIA filed a chargesheet in opposition to 59 accused, together with the PFI as an organisation within the case.
One of those accused, recognized as Abdul Naser, died on January 2 this yr, mentioned the NIA, including “Efforts are on to track and trace the remaining 11 absconding accused, out of the total of 59 identified as involved in the conspiracy so far.”Â
