{"id":491213,"date":"2023-10-11T12:16:23","date_gmt":"2023-10-11T06:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=491213"},"modified":"2023-10-11T12:16:27","modified_gmt":"2023-10-11T06:46:27","slug":"nia-raids-pfi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/politics\/nia-raids-pfi\/","title":{"rendered":"NIA conduct raids in 6 states against banned outfit PFI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The National Investigation Agency (NIA) is carrying out raids across six states in cases against the banned organisation, Popular Front of India (PFI). The central agency initiated searches in Delhi-NCR, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh since 5am on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Uttar Pradesh, searches were carried out in Lucknow, Barabanki, Bahraich, Sitapur and Hardoi. Reports said that three houses in the same locality in Lucknow were raided by NIA teams and paramilitary forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WATCH?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WATCH<\/a> | Uttar Pradesh: Visuals from Lucknow as National Investigation Agency (NIA) conducts raids across six states in Popular Front of India-related cases. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SC3HbSeFY1\">pic.twitter.com\/SC3HbSeFY1<\/a><\/p>&mdash; ANI (@ANI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ANI\/status\/1711964984912347145?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 11, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In Mumbai\u2019s Vikhroli, the investigating agency raided the house of Abdul Wahid Shaikh, accused in the 2006 Mumbai train blast. However, the trial court had acquitted him of all charges. The agency reached his residence at 5am but Sheikh refused to let them in and asked for a legal notice, said reports.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Furthermore, NIA along with local police started conducting raids at Old Delhi\u2019s Ballimaran. In Rajasthan, NIA teams conducted searches in Tonk, Kota and Gangapur late at night with several suspects taken into custody, according to reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">VIDEO | NIA raids in connection with Popular Front of India (PFI), an outfit banned under the anti-terror Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) last year, underway in Delhi&#39;s Ballimaran area. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Qs2H1jH7wD\">pic.twitter.com\/Qs2H1jH7wD<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Press Trust of India (@PTI_News) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PTI_News\/status\/1711941496818352213?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 11, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">VIDEO | NIA conducts raids in Shagird Pesha area in Rajasthan\u2019s Tonk in connection with Popular Front of India (PFI). <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wARfXUDrhY\">pic.twitter.com\/wARfXUDrhY<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Press Trust of India (@PTI_News) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PTI_News\/status\/1711948620495573419?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 11, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, the Enforcement Directorate had raided residences of former PFI employees in four Kerala districts namely Thrissur, Ernakulam, Malappuram and Wayanad, earlier in September. The Investigation Agency\u00a0 also raided the Malappuram home of many PFI agents in August.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The raids were carried out at the properties of members of the outlawed PFI, including Thayyil Hamza in Vengara, Kalathiparambil Yahuti in Tirur, Haneefa in Tanur, and Rangattur Padikkaparambil Jaffer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">VIDEO | National Investigation Agency (NIA) conducts raids at several locations in Madurai, Tamil Nadu linked to Popular Front of India (PFI), which was banned under the anti-terror Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) last year. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Fvywk7FYb2\">pic.twitter.com\/Fvywk7FYb2<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Press Trust of India (@PTI_News) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PTI_News\/status\/1711937235476787675?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 11, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The raids followed months after the NIA lodged charges against 19 individuals, 12 of whom were members of the banned organization\u2019s National Executive Council (NEC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the view of its alleged security risks and ties with terrorism, the Union Home Ministry banned PFI and eight of its partners, last year in September for five years. The National Development Front (NDF) of Kerala and the Karnataka Forum for Dignity (KFD) had merged to form the Popular Front of India (PFI) in 2006.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Mumbai\u2019s Vikhroli, the investigating agency raided the house of Abdul Wahid Shaikh, accused in the 2006 Mumbai train blast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":491215,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1497,4,125714],"tags":[155896,89234],"yst_prominent_words":[88293,3907,51257,27270,89226,89225,89229,4248,5300,4254,89227,89228,89224,89223,3971,29582,5597,75253,5260],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2023\/10\/11121134\/Capture-17.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491213"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491213"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=491213"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=491213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->