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Police personnel detain a Popular Front of India worker for allegedly vandalizing shops and vehi- Members of Popular Front of India (PFI) raise slogans during the one-day state-wide over the
cles during a protest as a part of the statewide strike called over NIA raids, in Kochi. (ANI Photo) NIA raids in Kottayam and Kochi, on Friday. (ANI Photo)

angana PFI head office in Chan- fice in Mattannur in Kannur, police tional Investigation Agency (NIA), washing the youth with Salafi Wahha-
drayangutta, Hyderabad in connec- said. Additional Director General of Muslim Students’ Organization of bi ideology against PFI, MSO Of India
tion with a case registered earlier by Police (ADGP), Law and Order, Vi- India on Thursday appealed to Mus- said Muslims should help the country
the agency. In Mumbai, Anti-Terror- jay Sakhare told ANI that 500 people lim youth to stay patient. in its pursuit of stability and peace.
ism Squad (ATS) arrested five sus- had been arrested so far in connec- “Muslim youth should be patient It said the Muslims of the coun-
pects related to the Popular Front of tion with the protests. on the action taken on PFI. Appeal try PFI and organizations of Sala-
India (PFI) on Thursday. “500 people have been arrested of Muslim organizations Tanzeem fi Wahhabi ideology are basically
The National Investigation in connection with that and 400 more Ulema-e-Islam, Kul Hind Markazi brainwashing the youth which is not
Agency (NIA) court of Delhi on have been put under preventive de- Imam Council and MSO have said in in the favor of Islam, country and
Thursday sent 18 persons of the Pop- tention in connection with a hartal their statement that if this action has humanity. “PFI and such Salafi Wah-
ular Front of India (PFI), arrested called by the Popular front of India been taken for compliance of law and habi organizations want to trick them
from different parts of the country in (PFI). An incident of stone pelting prevention of terrorism, then every- against the basic ideology of Sufi ma-
a multi-agency operation led by the was also reported at the RSS office one should be patient on it,” tweet- jority population of the country but
NIA, to a four-day remand. at Mattanur,” the ADGP said. ed Muslim Students’ Organization this situation is not in the interest of
The 18 accused were produced Earlier in the day, a petrol bomb (MSO) of India. It said the charges Islam, country and humanity. The
in NIA court under heavy security. was also hurled at the RSS office in of murder, violence and possession organizations expressed confidence
All were produced before the NIA Mattannur during the protest against of weapons against those arrested that they have faith in the judicial
Judge Shailendra Malik. The court the arrest of the PFI activists. Ac- were serious. “However, these alle- system, law and constitution of the
sent them to a four-day remand. cording to reports, two persons on a gations have to be proved in court. country,” it said.
According to the NIA, 19 arrests scooter hurled a petrol bomb at the All the organizations said that for the While condemning the raids by
had been made in connection with an Sangh office which resulted in the last several days there are continuous the National Investigation Agency
FIR registered in Delhi. Apart from shattering of window panes. reports of anti-national activities of (NIA) and the Enforcement Direc-
the 18 produced in court, one more After the arrest of 106 Popular PFI,” said MSO of India. torate (ED) against its leaders, PFI
accused from Karnataka and is being Front of India (PFI) cadres by Na- Keeping allegations of brain- stated that it will “never surrender”
brought on transit remand. and alleged that the agency’s claims
According to the NIA, all the are aimed at “creating an atmo-
accused would be kept in four differ- sphere of terror”.
ent police stations. Moreover, NIA But All India Muslim Jamaat
has told the court that neither FIR president Maulana Shahabuddin
nor the remand copy would be given Razvi on Friday called upon the Mus-
to the accused persons owing to the lim community to stay away from the
national security risk involved. “In- Popular Front of India (PFI) calling it
vestigation is preliminary, and more a “radical group” and urged the cen-
remand might be needed later. The tral government to impose a ban on it.
investigation is sensitive in nature Maulana Razvi welcomed the
and more people are likely to be arrest of the PFI leaders across the
identified”, said the NIA. country. “PFI is a radical organiza-
Meanwhile, as many as 500 peo- tion. Its members follow a radical-
ple were arrested and 400 others put ized ideology. I would appeal to all
under preventive detention on Friday Sufi and Sunni Muslims to stay away
in connection with violent protests from this organization. The PFI has
during the twelve-hour strike called been named in many incidents across
by PFI to protest the arrest of the Popular Front of India (PFI) members Dr. Minarul Seikh and Bazrul Karim being taken to the the country. It is necessary that there
organisation’s leaders. The protests CJM court after their arrest by Assam Police, in Guwahati on Friday. (ANI Photo) should be a ban on these kinds of or-
also saw stone pelting at an RSS of- ganizations,” said Razvi.

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