Updated Jan 20, 2021 | 12:34 IST
Recently, ED conducted nationwide raids on premises linked to the radical outfit, PFI, in connection with multiple cases of money laundering. File picture: Popular Front of India (PFI) activists during a protest to press for their various demands in Kolkata | Photo Credit: IANS
New Delhi: The premier investigation agency, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) is currently probing various cases against the Popular Front of India (PFI).
So far, NIA has charge sheeted more than 100 PFI activists on terror as well as criminal charges over various offences, including linkage with ISIS, Professor s hand-chopping case, Narath arms training case among others.
NIA, ED, state police probing hundreds of cases against PFI
Wed, Jan 20 2021 10:19:24 AM
New Delhi, Jan 20 (IANS): The premier investigation agency, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) is currently probing various cases against the Popular Front of India (PFI).
So far, NIA has charge-sheeted more than 100 PFI activists on terror as well as criminal charges over various offences, including linkage with ISIS, Professor s hand-chopping case, Narath arms training case among others.
Apart from NIA, Enforcement Directorate (ED) is also probing the PFI in multiple cases including its role in the anti-CAA stir and the North East Delhi riots and a foreign funding case in 2018.
NIA arrests 17 in Bengaluru riots case
NIA arrests 17 in Bengaluru riots case
Bangalore Mirror Bureau / Updated: Dec 22, 2020, 06:00 IST
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday said it has arrested 17 leaders and activists of
the Social Democratic Party of India (
SDPI) and
Bengaluru violence on August 11.
About 3,000 to 4,000 people had gone on a rampage torching the residences of Pulakeshinagar Congress MLA R Akhanda Srinivasa Murthy and his sister Jayanthi over an alleged inflammatory social media post by the MLA’s relative.
They had also set the Devara Jeevanahalli and the Kadugondanahalli (KG)
police stations on fire.
With this, 187 people have been arrested.
NIA arrests 17 SDPI and PFI leaders in connection with Bengaluru rioting case @NIA India National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested 17 SDPI and PFI leaders and activists for their involvement in the violent attack and large scale rioting in Bengaluru in August this year. The violence took place after a Facebook post by the nephew of Congress MLA AS Murthy. The case was originally registered as FIR in KG Halli Police Station on 12th August this year and it was later reregistered by NIA on 21st September.
NIA said, the investigation so far has revealed that the SDPI leaders - Md. Sharieff, President, Bengaluru District SDPI; Imran Ahmed President KG Halli Ward; along with other senior leaders like Rubah Waqas, Shabbar Khan and Shaik Ajmal had conducted meetings at Thanissandra and KG Halli wards in Bengaluru in the evening of 11th August. Wherein they conspired, mobilised and led the crowd gathered at KG Halli Police station to attack the
Bengaluru riots: A deliberate attempt to create terror as NIA nets 187
India
Updated: Tuesday, December 22, 2020, 16:17 [IST]
New Delhi, Dec 22: The number of persons arrested by the National Investigation Agency in connection with the Bengaluru riots case is now 187. 17 more persons have been arrested by the NIA in connection with the case.
The case pertains to a violent attack in Bengaluru on August 11 2020 following a Facebook post by Naveen, the nephew of Akhanda Srinivas Murthy, who is a Congress MLA from Pulakeshi Nagar.
File Photo of Bengaluru mob attack in August
The NIA has found that the SDPI leaders, Mohammad Sharieff, President, Bengaluru District SDPI, Imran Ahmed, President, KG Halli Ward, along with other senior leaders like Rubah Waqas, Shabbar Khan and Shaik Ajmal had conducted meetings at Thanissandra and KG Halli wards in Bengaluru on August 11 where they conspired, mobilised and led the crowd gathered at KG Halli Police station to attack the police personnel