Raids on PFI locations in 8 states including Delhi and UP, many leaders arrested. Raids on PFI locations in 8 states many leaders action taken on the instructions of NIA

Raids On PFI: The Popular Front of India (PFI) has been raided in many states on the instructions of the NIA. On the instructions of the NIA, the Karnataka Police has taken PFI leaders in preventive custody in several districts of the state by raiding in the early hours of Tuesday. In Bidar district, PFI district president Abdul Karim and SDPI district secretary Sheikh Maqsood have been detained. 6 members of PFI have been taken into preventive custody in Kolar district. In Mangaluru also 10 people have been arrested and a case has been registered against them under sections 107 and 151 of CrPC. 6 people of PFI in Bagalkot have been taken into preventive custody. Police has arrested Ashfaq Jamkhandi, District Secretary of PFI in Vijayapura.

This raid is going on in about a dozen cities of UP. In Lucknow, the capital of UP, UP ATS and STF are doing raids in the PFI case. In Lucknow and adjoining areas, this red is happening till western UP and Purvanchal. Several people have been taken into custody from Meerut and Bulandshahr and they are being questioned. At the same time, a suspect has also been taken into custody from Sitapur.

In fact, the NIA had given inputs to the police and ATS of 8 states in the investigation related to PFI. The states to which the NIA had given these inputs are Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, UP, Delhi and others. Raids are being conducted by local police and local agencies in these states.

More than 100 cadres of PFI were arrested

Earlier, NIA had taken major action in 10 states. NIA, ED along with state police had arrested more than 100 cadres of PFI. The NIA had conducted searches at many places in the biggest ever investigation process. In Tamil Nadu, the NIA had searched the houses of PFI office-bearers at several places in Tamil Nadu including Coimbatore, Cuddalore, Ramnad, Dindugal, Theni and Thenkasi. Searches were also conducted at the Chennai PFI’s state head office at Purasavakkam.

In the process of raiding NIA’s PFI in UP, two suspects were taken into custody from Lucknow. At the same time, from Baran in Rajasthan, the NIA had detained three people including SDFI’s Sadiq. In Rajasthan, the NIA raided the PFI’s office on Moti Dungri Road in the capital Jaipur.