New Delhi: In a recent crackdown in opposition to the cadres of the banned Popular Front of India (PFI), the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday carried out searches at 16 places in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Punjab and Goa.The anti-terror company performed these raids on the premises and suspected places of PFI sympathisers and cadres in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Punjab and Goa primarily based on inputs that a number of Over Ground Workers (OGW) of the outfit indulged in anti-national actions. The locations being searched by the NIA embody 12 in Bihar, two in Uttar Pradesh and one every in Punjab`s Ludhiana and Goa, sources instructed ANI. “Multiple NIA teams are engaged in raids in close coordination with state police forces,” stated the sources.
Since the Ministry of Home Affairs has banned the PFI and its prime leaders have been jailed, the outfit is working exhausting to reorganize and strengthen its cadres.The NIA has been investigating the actions of the PFI, which was declared as an `illegal affiliation` in September 2022.
The NIA investigation has discovered that regardless of the ban imposed on the PFI, the leaders and cadres of the outfit continued to propagate the ideology of violent extremism and had been additionally arranging arms and ammunition to commit crimes.
PFI Accused Of Radicalising Muslim YouthÂ
The NIA`s motion got here days after it connected two flooring of a faculty constructing in Maharashtra`s Pune the place the PFI had been organising camps to radicalise and indoctrinate Muslim youth and additional prepare them for finishing up focused killings and assaults in opposition to leaders and organisations of specific group.
The anti-terror company seized the 4th and fifth flooring of the Blue Bells School constructing that had been utilized by PFI to plan and put together for finishing up terrorist actions with the purpose of “endangering the unity, integrity and security of India”.
As per the NIA, the PFI was recruiting harmless Muslim youth into the outfit at these premises, and likewise offering them with armed and unarmed coaching to get rid of and assault these against the institution of Islamic Rule within the nation by 2047.
NIA investigations in PFI instances have revealed that the accused individuals had been a part of the legal conspiracy to determine a Caliphate and Islamic Rule in India by waging warfare in opposition to the nation and toppling the democratically elected authorities.Â
