PFI Encouraged Youth To Join Terrorist Organisations, Establish Islamic Rule In India: NIA To Kerala Court

NIA also said that PFI spread “disaffection against India by wrongful interpretation of government policies to the particular section of people to create hatred against the state and its machineries.”

New Delhi: Office bearers and members of The Popular Front of India (PFI) and its affiliates in Kerala encourage the vulnerable youth to join terrorists organisations like Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), or Daesh and Al-Qaida, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) stated in a remand copy submitted before a special court in Kerala, reported news agency ANI. 

The federal agency also said that PFI conspired to establish Islamic state in India by committing a terrorist act, reported the news agency. 

The Central agency also accused the PFI's members and cadres operating from Kerala to conspire to indulge in "unlawful activities by creating enmity between members of different religions and groups, prejudicial to maintenance of harmony, with the intention to disrupt public tranquillity and cause disaffection against India".

The claims by NIA came in an application for judicial remand of the accused Karamana Ashraf Moulavi, national in-charge of PFI’s education wing and others. The case is being investigated by NIA’s Kochi branch. 

"The brief facts of the case is that the Popular Front of India (PFI), its office bearers, members and affiliates in Kerala have conspired to indulge in Unlawful Activities, by creating enmity between members of different religions and groups, prejudicial to maintenance of harmony, with an intention to disrupt public tranquillity and cause disaffection against India, propagating alternative justice delivery system justifying the use of criminal force causing alarm and fear amongst the general public, encourages vulnerable youths to join terrorist organisation including Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)/Daesh and Al-Qaida and also conspired to establish Islamic rule in India by committing a terrorist act as a part of violent jihad," reads the remand copy.

The NIA also alleged PFI of spreading “dis-affection against India by wrongful interpretation of government policies to the particular section of people to create hatred against the state and its machineries.”