NIA gets custody of 11 PFI activists till Sept 30 after massive crackdown against radical outfit
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A special court in Kochi granted custody of 11 Popular Front of India (PFI) activists to the National Investigation Agency (NIA) till September 30.
A Kochi special court granted the National Investigation Agency (NIA) the custody of 11 Popular Front of India (PFI) activists till September 30 on Saturday. The PFI activists were arrested on September 22.
The NIA has raised serious allegations against the PFI and its arrested leaders, and claimed that the seized documents during the raids contain highly incriminating materials targeting prominent leaders of a particular community.
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The probe agency also alleged that the radical Islamist outfit motivated Indian Muslim youths to join terrorist groups, including Lashkar-e-Taiba, Islamic State (IS) and Al-Qaida.
In near simultaneous raids across the country, a multi-agency operation spearheaded by the NIA on September 22 led to the arrest of 106 activists of the Popular Front of India for allegedly supporting terror activities in the country, officials had said.
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In a major crackdown against the Popular Front of India (PFI), the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) carried out searches at multiple locations on Thursday against PFI at 93 locations in 15 states including Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Telengana, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Delhi, Assam, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Goa, West Bengal, Bihar and Manipur.
