In crackdown against PFI, NIA files Chargesheet for 19 more.

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Conspiracy to bring Islamic rule in India by 2047, plan of PFI to kill people belonging to other religions. NIA files fresh chargesheet against 19, including 105 in total.

D Savitha | HENB | New Delhi | March 19, 2023::The National Investigation Agency (NIA) filed chargesheet against 19 people afresh, including 12 National Executive Council (NEC) members of the banned outfit Popular Front of India (PFI) for their alleged involvement in a conspiracy to wage a war for establishing an Islamic Caliphate in the country. Under the camouflage of welfare of the Muslims in India, PFI wanted to kill the Hindu leaders and common majority people in India to make a communal riot and distrust including arms training for the Muslim youths.

With the filing of chargesheet in the Delhi case on Saturday, the total number of accused charge-sheeted in PFI cases across the country by the NIA now stands at 105, a spokesperson of the federal agency was quoted by PTI as saying.

The PFI was formed in 2006 with the merger of the National Development Front (NDF) of Kerala and Karnataka Forum for Dignity (KFD) with Oma Salam becoming its chairman, EM Abdul Rahiman’s vice-chairman, VP Nazaruddin national secretary, Anees Ahmed the national general secretary of the NEC, the top decision-making body in the outfit.

The 19 accused charge-sheeted under various sections of the Indian Penal Code and the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act included Salam, Rahiman, Nazaruddin, Ahmed, Afsar Pasha, E Abubacker, Prof P Koya and Mohammed Ali Jinnah.

The PFI was formed in 2006 with the merger of the National Development Front (NDF) of Kerala and Karnataka Forum for Dignity (KFD) with Oma Salam becoming its chairman, EM Abdul Rahiman’s vice-chairman, VP Nazaruddin national secretary, Anees Ahmed the national general secretary of the NEC, the top decision-making body in the outfit.

The 19 accused charge-sheeted under various sections of the Indian Penal Code and the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act included Salam, Rahiman, Nazaruddin, Ahmed, Afsar Pasha, E Abubacker, Prof P Koya and Mohammed Ali Jinnah.

Some other key position holders in the NEC named in the chargesheet are Abdul Wahid Sait, AS Ismail, Mohd Yusuf, Mohammed Basheer, Shafeer KP, Jaseer KP, Shahid Nasir, Waseem Ahmed, Mohammed Shakif, Muhammed Farooq Ur Rahman and Yasar Arafat alias Yasir Hasan.

They were arrested following a nationwide crackdown at 39 locations, including PFI offices, across the country after the group was banned by the Ministry of Home Affairs in September last year.

“The case, under investigation since April 2022, has revealed that a criminal conspiracy was hatched by the PFI to divide the country on communal lines. It has also come to light that the ultimate objective of the conspiracy was to overthrow the existing system of secular and democratic governance in India and replace it with an Islamic Caliphate,” PTI quoted the spokesperson as saying.

According to NIA, its investigations have also exposed a trail of funding by the PFI to its terror operatives and weapons trainers across the country. The payments were made both in cash and through regular bank transfers in the guise of payment of salaries.

As per a NIA release on March 7, 2023, a Multi-State Hawala network funding PFI terror activity’ has been busted  across the country, especially the States of Kerala, Karnataka, Bihar (Phulwarisharif) etc.

All these PFI trainers have been arrested in cases registered either by the NIA or by different state police forces. The NIA has also frozen 37 bank accounts of the PFI organisation as well as 40 bank accounts belonging to 19 individuals associated with PFI, virtually squeezing the organisation’s funding activities.

On 28 September 2022, the Government of India declared PFI as “unlawful association” and temporarily banned the organisation for five years under the UAPA [Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act].. The organization has denied the charges and claimed that it is a socio-cultural organization working for the welfare of minorities and marginalized communities.

But, investigative agencies have revealed many document during raids that hinted that PFI was engaged with various Jihadi activism to make India as an Islamic State under Ghazwa-e-Hind.

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__Inputs from PTI & NIA.