Kanpur clashes: ED seeks particulars of three individuals held for funding important accused

Express News Service

LUCKNOW: The Enforcement Directorate (ED), on Monday,  approached Kanpur police in search of particulars of the three individuals arrested in reference to violent protests in Kanpur on June 3 and their alleged hyperlink Popular Front of India (PFI).

ED will scan their monetary transactions to establish if there was any money-laundering by the three specifically —  Saifullah, Mohammad Naseem and Mohammad Umar.

It could also be recalled that Kanpur had witness a communal flare-up in several localities when members of minority neighborhood took to streets to protest after Friday prayers on June 3 in opposition to the assertion of Nupur Sharma, ex-BJP spokesperson, over Prophet Mohammad.

Around a dozen individuals have been injured throughout the protests which took a violent flip because the protestors began hurling stones, crude bombs on frequent individuals whereas making an attempt to drive the shopkeepers to down shutters in Nai Sadak and Yateemkhana areas of town after Friday prayers.

The three individuals allegedly linked with PFI got here underneath the ED scanner after Kanpur police acquired the leads that they’d funded the prime accused of Kanpur flare-up, Hayat Zafar Hashmi for mobilizing the group and staging the protest.

“The three including Saifullah, Mohammad Naseem and Mohammad Umar, having affiliation to PFI, were also identified during violence against Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in 2019. They were arrested then also,” mentioned Vijay Singh Meena, Kanpur police commissioner.

As per ED sources, the transactions of the three arrested accused and in addition Hayat Zafar Hashmi can be scanned after getting their particulars and of the case from the Kanpur police.

Last yr, ED in its charge-sheet had mentioned that Popular Front of India (PFI) males acquired funds from overseas to assist their alleged bid to disturb communal concord in Hathras after alleged gang rape of a minor lady which led to her demise in September, 2020.