On April 8, 2023, the Assam Police arrested three active suspects linked to the banned Islamist radical Popular Front of India (PFI) and its student wing, Campus Front of India (CFI), from the Barpeta District of Assam. The arrestees were identified as PFI ‘state secretary’ Zakir Hussain, PFI cadre Abu Sama, and CFI National Treasurer Shahidul Islam. INR 150,000 in cash, four mobile phones and Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) leaflets, were recovered from them.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Saturday carried out searches at multiple locations in Mumbai and Bengaluru against some suspects having links with global terror outfit ISIS and Al-Qaeda, sources said.
The raids are learnt to have links with the case related to the conspiracy hatched by the accused to spread terror activities of the Islamic State (IS), a banned terrorist organisation.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday conducted raids at several locations across South India in Karnataka and arrested two operatives in connection with the Shivamogga ISIS conspiracy case, one of them is a Congress leader’s son.