The Special National Investigation Agency (NIA) Court here sent Abdul Sathar, a Popular Front of India (PFI) leader, to five days of NIA custody for interrogation.
The NIA sought seven days of custody, but the court granted only five days. The NIA informed the Court that it needed to investigate PFI’s foreign funding.
Earlier, the court sent him to judicial custody till October 20, but the NIA sought his custody on Friday and the Court granted it today.
Sathar, the State General Secretary before the PFI was dissolved, is the third accused in the case of UAPA, in which the NIA has registered after the ban. He was arrested last week by the NIA from Karunagappalli in the Kollam district.
Last week, the court sent 11 other PFI leaders to 21 days of judicial custody till October 20.
The PFI workers, who were booked under UAPA and arrested by the NIA last month from different locations in Kerala, were presented by the NIA in court after their seven days of custody came to an end on 30 September.
In a major breakthrough linked to the largest-ever action against the Popular Front of India (PFI), the central investigating agencies have found inputs against the outfit for “organizing a training camp with the intent to cause disturbance during Prime Minster Narendra Modi’s visit to Bihar’s capital Patna on July 12 this year”.
The agencies also found details of numerous bank accounts of PFI.