The Popular Front of India (PFI) module that Bihar Police had busted in Patna last month had plans to sabotage Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the state. According to an FIR registered by the National Investigation
Agency (NIA) in the Phulwari Sharif PFI module bust case, the accused part of the module had plans to sabotage PM Modi’s visit on 12 July.
The Daily Guardian had reported, after Bihar Police busted the PFI module, that the accused had planned protests in Patna the day PM Modi was to visit the city to attend the closing ceremony of Bihar Legislative Assembly’s centenary celebrations. The NIA FIR confirms what
Bihar Police on 13 July had busted a potential terror module with links to the extremist outfit PFI and arrested Mohammad Jallauddin, a retired police officer of Jharkhand, Athar Parvez and Arman Malik from Phulwari Sharif area of Patna. Their interrogation led the investigators to Margub Ahmed Danish.
The central anti-terror investigating agency, which took over the case from Bihar Police, filed two separate FIRs on 22 July. The first FIR mentioned a plan to sabotage the PM’s visit by some suspected persons who had assembled in the Phulwari Sharif area on July 11. Said the first FIR, “During the proposed visit of the Prime Minister to Bihar, some suspected persons had assembled in Phulwari Sharif area on July 11, 2022,” mentioned the first FIR.”
The FIR, which named 26 suspects, also said that initially a case was registered on 12 July by Bihar Police at Phulwari Sharif police station.
The NIA took over and re-registered the case based on an order issued by the Counter Terrorism and Counter Radicalization Division of the Ministry of Home Affairs taking cognisance of the gravity of the offence and its national security ramifications.
The second FIR is based on the interception of Danish alias Tahir by Bihar Police on July 14 for his alleged involvement in anti-India activities and radicalization of impressionable youth using various social media platforms. “During the interrogation of Margub Ahmad Danish, it was revealed that he was the admin to two WhatsApp groups named ‘Ghazwa-e-Hind’ and a group on BIP chat having the same name ‘Ghazwa-e-Hind’ and that, he is involved in the radicalisation of impressionable youth in India,” read the FIR.