Lucknow. Regarding the action being taken on PFI (Popular Front of India), Deputy Chief Minister Brajesh Pathak has directed the police and administration to be more active. He says that the network of PFI in the state will be completely destroyed. The state government is making continuous efforts for this. For this, raids are being conducted on the locations of PFI. Let us tell you that the central government has banned PFI for five years.
Thorough investigation of suspects
Instructions have been given to conduct thorough investigation of the suspects being caught in the raids and to increase surveillance. Those accused indulging in anti-national activities are being sent behind the bars of the jail. All the superintendents of police and district administration have been alerted. Said that the government is constantly making efforts to stop anti-social activities. Terrorist activities will not be allowed to flourish in the state under any circumstances.
ATS and STF investigated in 26 districts, seized documents
- Funding from abroad for anti-national activities is being investigated more intensively. In this episode, raids are going on at the places of office bearers and members of Popular Front of India (PFI) and its affiliated organizations in Uttar Pradesh.
- Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) and Special Task Force (STF) along with local police have conducted raids in 26 districts including Lucknow, Lucknow Rural, Kanpur, Barabanki, Bahraich, Meerut, Aligarh, Bulandshahr.
- The raids, which started on Monday night, continued till Tuesday evening. ADG Law and Order Prashant Kumar says that in the raids conducted in 26 districts, 57 suspects are being interrogated by custodial interrogation.
- The recovered documents and evidence are being analyzed. Accordingly, further legal action will be taken accordingly. PFI has deep roots in Uttar Pradesh.
- The role of the Campus Front of India (CFI), the student wing of PFI, came to the fore after the Hathras incident. The STF also arrested KA Rauf Sharif, the national general secretary of the CFI. At the same time, during the raid on Thursday, the STF had arrested Mu.Ahmed Baig, leader of PFI’s political wing Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) from Madeyaganj area of Lucknow.
Funding from Gulf countries is being investigated more intensively
- Sources say that the investigating agencies have also got concrete information about some of their other associate organizations during the raid, efforts are being made to reach the members associated with them.
- In the investigation of central investigative agencies, the facts of massive funding of PFI from Gulf countries have come to the fore. After this, the investigation has been intensified on the locations of the office bearers and members of PFI.
- After the ban on SIMI, its active members joined the PFI. After which, apart from Lucknow and Kanpur, PFI started spreading its roots by forming local committees in many districts of western Uttar Pradesh. Then their network went on expanding to other cities as well.
Sources say that the ATS and STF are investigating the amount of funding through the members associated with these local committees. It is being seen to whom the funding amount was transferred and in what activities it was used. It is believed that the suspects caught in the raid may be arrested soon.