The Enforcement Directorate conducted raids in the houses of former Popular Front of India (PFI) workers in four districts of Kerala on Monday. As per the reports, raids are being conducted in the Thrissur, Ernakulam, Malappuram and Wayanad districts of Kerala.
In August the NIA had raided the house of several PFI operatives in Malappuram. The raids were conducted at residences of Thayyil Hamza in Vengara, Kalathiparambil Yahuti in Tirur, Haneefa in Tanur and Rangattur Padikkaparambil Jaffer, who were all part of the banned PFI.
The searches came after the NIA in early August had attached the Green Valley Academy in Manjeri, one of the PFI’s largest and oldest arms and physical training centres. As per the NIA this was the sixth arms training centre of the PFI to be attached in the state as ‘proceeds of terrorism’ under provisions of the UAPA (Unlawful Activities Prevention Act ).
The NIA had said that the Manjeri centre was being used under the guise of an educational institution by the PFI and its frontal organisations.
Earlier, a joint team of Enforcement Directorate (ED) and the National Investigation Agency (NIA), and state police forces had arrested over 100 PFI leaders during raids across 10 states. The searches were conducted at the residential and official premises of persons involved in “funding terrorism, organising training camps and radicalising people to join proscribed organisations”.
“In a major action across 10 states, NIA, ED and state police have arrested more than 100 cadres of PFI,” sources told ANI. The raids were conducted in Telangana, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and many more states, said sources.
