Kolkata, Amit Sharma: The National Investigation Agency (NIA), in a major crackdown in five states of the country, in its sustained efforts to foil the conspiracy of the Popular Front of India (PFI) to disturb the peace and destabilize the country by creating communal sentiments among the people. Raids were conducted at 14 places. West Bengal in these states. Kerala, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Bihar are included. The NIA team conducted a search operation at three places in Murshidabad district of Bengal. Allegedly, this campaign was carried out at the bases of members associated with PFI. Here, the NIA also conducted raids in Kannur and Malappuram districts of Kerala, Dakshina Kannada of Karnataka, Nashik and Kolhapur of Maharashtra and Katihar of Bihar, during which many digital devices and objectionable documents have been seized.
Seized objectionable documents including many digital equipment
An NIA official said that the National Investigation Agency is working to expose and thwart the efforts of the PFI and its top leadership to create an armed cadre to establish Islamic rule in India by 2047 through acts of terror, violence and subversion. doing work. PFI is conspiring to radicalize gullible youth and provide them arms training to further their anti-India violent agenda by waging war against certain sections of the society. The central probe agency suspects that several mid-level PFI members are working as ‘trainers’, conducting arms training camps in various states for their highly radicalized cadre. To thwart this conspiracy, the NIA is continuously conducting raids.
NIA campaign against PFI’s anti-India agenda continues from 2022
From the year 2022, NIA’s campaign against the anti-India agenda of PFI is going on. NIA’s first raid against PFI took place on September 22 last year, while the second round of raids took place on September 27 last year. During the first round, 106 PFI members have been arrested from five states of the country including Bengal. And in the second round of raids, 247 people were arrested and detained. When other investigative agencies including NIA got concrete evidence against PFI, then action was demanded from Union Home Ministry.
Chargesheet was filed against 105 accused
Only after that the Ministry of Home Affairs banned PFI. Only last year, PFI President Minarul Sheikh in West Bengal was arrested by the Assam Police from Delhi. In March this year, the NIA filed a charge sheet against 105 accused in cases registered against the PFI in different parts of the country. In this, he has been accused of hatching a criminal conspiracy with the aim of destabilizing the country and waging a war to establish an Islamic caliphate by 2047.