A view of National Investigation Agency, in New Delhi. File
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In a contemporary crackdown against the cadres of the banned Popular Front of India (PFI), the National Investigation Agency (NIA) is finishing up searches at greater than a dozen locations in varied components of the nation together with Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.
The locations being searched by the NIA embrace 12 in Bihar, two in Uttar Pradesh and one every in Punjab’s Ludhiana and Goa.
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The company is conducting raids in Darbhanga’s Urdu market in Bihar. According to police sources, the staff has reached there to research the actions associated to the banned PFI organisation. The raid is being carried out on Dr. Sarik Raza, a dentist situated in the Urdu Bazaar of Darbhanga metropolis and Mehboob, a resident of Shankarpur village in Singhwara police station space, in reference to the banned organisation PFI.
In one other place in Bihar, Motihari, the NIA staff raided the Kuanwa village of Chakia subdivision in the East Champaran district. A raid is being performed at Sajjad Ansari’s residence in a case associated to PFI. Sajjad is working in Dubai for the final 14 months, sources mentioned.
The NIA staff has confiscated Sajjad’s Aadhaar card, PAN card and a few paperwork from his residence, sources added. The Union Home Ministry had in September final 12 months declared the Popular Front of India (PFI) and its associates an ‘Unlawful Association’. It had mentioned that PFI and its associates or associates or fronts have been discovered to be concerned in critical offences, together with terrorism and its financing, focused grotesque killings, disregarding the constitutional set-up of the nation, disturbing public order and many others. that are prejudicial to the integrity, safety and sovereignty of the nation.
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The Home Ministry mentioned it discovered it essential to curb the nefarious actions of the organisation. It declared the Popular Front of India (PFI) together with its associates or associates or fronts together with Rehab India Foundation (RIF), Campus Front of India (CFI), All India Imams Council (AIIC), National Confederation of Human Rights Organization (NCHRO), National Women’s Front, Junior Front, Empower India Foundation and Rehab Foundation, Kerala as “unlawful association” underneath the provisions of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967.
