Kochi: Popular Front of India (PFI) has called a hartal from dawn to dusk in Kerala protesting against national wide raids and arrest of PFIleaders across the country by central agencies and police.
At least 100 leaders of the Islamic outfit were reportedly arrested during the raid carried out by NIA, ED and police of respective state governments, media reports said.
The raids were carried out in PFI offices and houses of its leaders in Kerala, Assam, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan, New Delhi and Puducherry, the reports said.
The Home Minister Amit Shah convened a meeting of top officials to discuss the matter amidst the raids, the reports said.The meeting was attended by National Security Advisor Ajit Doval who monitored the raids carried out based on case registered in New Delhi.
It was NIAs biggest operation since its formation, the reports said.The NIA dossier suggested banning the outfit in 2017 after it got information about PFIs involvement in terror activities. It said that the PFI activities were threat to national security, the reports said.
Its Sathya Sarini in Malappuram was engaged in forceful conversion. Working on lines of Taliban and aim at creating social divide, it said.PFI leaders were those working in SIMI before its ban. PFI top leaders E M Abdul Rahiman, P Koya and E Aboobacker were associated with the SIMI before its ban.
The dossiers said that the PFI was allegedly engaged in offering training in crude bomb making, IEDs, operating intelligence wings, creation social divide, operating training centres among others.Meanwhile, PFI has said that it was working for having its own identity, but had no role in terror activities, the reports said.
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