NIA, ED raid multiple locations across India to probe terror links, over 100 PFI members arrested
Kerala NIA ED raids: As per sources, raids are on since midnight at the houses of PFI state, district level leaders including the house of OMA Salam, PFI chairman.
HIGHLIGHTS
- NIA and ED conducted searches at multiple locations across India, especially Kerala and Tamil Nadu.
- Residences of PFI leaders were raided, and around 100 PFI members have been arrested.
- Raids began at midnight at the houses of PFI state, district-level leaders in Kerala.
NIA ED raids: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) conducted searches at multiple locations across India, especially in Kerala and Tamil Nadu. Residences and offices of Popular Front of India (PFI) leaders were raided, and around 100 PFI members have been arrested so far.
As per sources, raids began at midnight at the houses of PFI state, district level leaders including the house of OMA Salam, PFI chairman in Manjeri, Malappuram district, and at PFI offices.
Sources said this is the largest ever probe conducted by NIA to date. These searches are being conducted in residential and official premises of persons involved in funding terrorism, organizing training camps and radicalizing people to join proscribed organizations.
Not just in Kerala, the raids are underway across 10 states including Maharashtra, Assam, Karnataka, and Gujarat, among others. NIA, ED along with state police have arrested over 100 cadres of PFI, said sources.
In Tamil Nadu, NIA searched PFI office bearer houses at several places including Coimbatore, Cuddalore, Ramnad, Dindugal, Theni and Thenkasi. Searches also being conducted at the Chennai PFI State Head office at Purasawakkam.
The raids were conducted in Telangana, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and many more states, said sources. NIA earlier this month also raided 40 places in Telangana, Andhra Pradesh in a PFI case and detained four persons. The agency had then conducted searches at 38 locations in Telangana (23 in Nizamabad, four in Hyderabad, seven in Jagityal, two in Nirmal, one each in Adilabad and Karimnagar districts) and at two locations in Andhra Pradesh (one each in Kurnool and Nellore districts) in the case relating to Abdul Khader of Nizamabad district in Telangana and 26 other persons.
In the operation, NIA had seized incriminating materials, including digital devices, documents, two daggers and Rs 8,31,500 cash. As per NIA, the accused were “organizing camps for imparting training to commit terrorist acts and to promote enmity between different groups on the basis of religion”.
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