PFI concerned in ‘disturbing’ secular cloth of India; focusing on Hindu activists: Officials

By PTI

NEW DELHI: The PFI, banned on Wednesday, was indulging in “disturbing” the nation’s communal and secular cloth and “posing a grave threat” to nationwide safety by advancing its radical ideology and looking for to determine “political Islam” in India in addition to focusing on Hindu activists, officers stated.

According to officers monitoring actions of the PFI and its members, a secret ‘service group’ was shaped, much like the ‘hit squads’ whose most important job was to supply safety to senior PFI leaders and likewise saved observe of Hindu leaders of their areas and plan motion in opposition to them.

They alleged the PFI covertly organises coaching workout routines, and military-like drills, the place contributors are skilled to make use of pressure and violence in opposition to sure non secular teams, that are perceived as enemy of Islam.

They additional alleged that since its inception, the PFI has been in opposition to Hindu organisations and its leaders and the group has a secret hit squad that engages in focused killings of Hindu activists and people allegedly indulging in blasphemy.

The PFI is alleged to have been repeatedly concerned in anti-government propaganda and spreading the narrative that Muslims had been being persecuted in India.

It had allegedly taken a lead in organising anti-CAA protests throughout December 2019-March 2020 and plenty of instances had been registered in opposition to them which included 51 in Uttar Pradesh alone the place the PFI-led platform, Samvidhan Suraksha Andolan, was amongst these which coordinated the anti-CAA agitations.

Through lively involvement within the protests, the PFI was capable of venture itself as a distinguished Muslim organisation able to safeguarding the pursuits of the group.

By projecting itself as a champion of Muslim causes, the PFI had been profitable in attracting new members through the years.

Its function within the Delhi riots was additionally investigated by the ED. In current years, the peaceable ambiance of the nation was threatened by PFI, which has presence in 17 states, officers stated.

The homicide of Praveen Nettaru in Bellare city on July 26 was one of many instances that uncovered the violent character of PFI.

ALSO READ: Kerala PFI common secretary proclaims outfit has been disbanded; nabbed

Nettaru, a member of Bhartiya Janata Yuva Morcha and an area businessman, was hacked to dying in typical ISIS type by bike-borne assailants and a lot of the accused within the case had affiliation with the PFI, the officers alleged.

An investigation by native police claimed a chilling story of cold-blooded homicide by PFI cadres and SDPI members in retaliation to the killing of 19-year-old Masood, a Muslim migrant labourer.

An inventory of RSS and Bajrang Dal members of the city was ready and some had been chosen to avenge Masood’s dying and Nettaru was chosen as he had commented on the halal concern, officers stated.

Disputing the claims of the PFI of being a social organisation working for the uplift of Muslims, the officers stated quite the opposite, the bottom actions of PFI inform a very completely different story with a number of of its cadres have a violent historical past.

Over 1400 prison instances had been registered in opposition to PFI cadres and its associates throughout the nation together with the UAPA, the Explosive Substances Act, Arms Act and different sections of the IPC.

The officers claimed that interrogation of the accused in varied instances confirmed that the PFI would determine Muslim youths, from a poor or middle-class background, for bodily coaching throughout which they had been additionally inculcated with anti-Hindutva ideology.

These cadres had been skilled in dealing with knife, sword, rods and how you can assault particular physique elements to inflict most harm.

On July 4, Telangana Police registered a case in opposition to 27 individuals after a coaching camp for 200 PFI cadres was present in Nizamabad.

The PFI had been attempting laborious to make inroads into Telangana to extend its cadre base and was enterprise social programmes like distributing college books and meals to the poor.

The officers alleged there have been numerous cases of worldwide linkages of PFI with world terrorist teams the place a few of PFI activists, notably from Kerala, had joined ISIS and had participated in terror actions in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, which was the end result of steady radicalisation of its cadres.

ALSO READ: Centre bans PFI and its associates for 5 years over terror hyperlinks

While investigating the international funding path of PFI, the ED discovered that PFI had shaped district government committees in varied gulf international locations together with the UAE, Oman, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia.

The India Fraternity Forum (IFF) and Indian Social Forum (ISF) had been PFI’s abroad fronts and had been to politically have interaction the expatriate Muslims to evolve to their ideology and organise funds for actions of PFI in India.

Their government committees had been answerable for sending cash to PFI in India with out leaving any path.

Funds had been typically collected in money and remitted to India both via hawala channels or camouflaged as remittances by sending it to the accounts of India-based family members and buddies of PFI’s members and sympathisers working overseas.

Further, PFI had linkages with the dreaded Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh, which was concerned in a number of terror incidents in that nation.

Also, 21 individuals having linkages with the PFI had joined the internationally banned ISIS terror group.

Some Al-Qaeda within the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) coaching movies, depicting grotesque murders, had been recovered from the PFI cadre accused within the professor TJ Joseph hand-chopping case in 2010.

PFI’s prime leaders had visited Turkey in 2018 and 2019 to attend programmes associated to Palestine.

Its radical actions had attracted the eye of a global radical outfit specifically, the Party of Islamic Renewal, which had in April despatched a web-based letter to PFI on the Twitter, praising its actions and urging it to organise a ‘Revolutionary Army’ for Jihad in opposition to the Indian authorities.

Pertinently, PFI has additionally been focusing on leaders of the Sufi Islamic Board, who had been campaigning consistently for a ban on the PFI.

Officials stated since its inception in 2006, the PFI inspired its cadres to undertake actions that mar peace and concord amongst non secular teams and disrupt secular cloth of the nation.

Giving a quick historical past, they stated on December 9, 2006, three south Indian Muslim fundamentalist teams — National Development Front/NDF, Kerala; Karnataka Forum for Dignity/KFD, Karnataka; and Manitha Neethi Pasarai/MNP, Tamil Nadu, rechristened ‘South India Council’ (a Bengaluru-based organisation floated by NDF in 2004) as ‘Popular Front of India’.

Several members of PFI, together with its prime management, had been lively members of banned SIMI which included EM Abdul Rahiman (former Chairman), E Abubacker (Member, National Executive Council/NEC) and P Koya (Member, NEC).

SIMI was banned in 2001 underneath the UAPA for anti-national actions. In their oath of allegiance, the PFI cadres swear to sacrifice their lives for the creation of Allah’s rule (Shariah).

This oath was administered to the cadre solely when he was judged to have been suitably radicalised for the group.

PFI recruits had been radicalised by the show of selective video clippings on emotive points like Babri Masjid demolition, communal riots in Gujarat and different elements of the nation, aimed toward instilling a way of Muslim persecution and mistrust in opposition to the State in addition to different communities.

The officers claimed that in interrogation by the ED (December 2020), Rauf Sharief (former common secretary, CFI), had stated that PFI runs a secret aid wing, which really plans and executes revenge assaults on chosen RSS leaders.

On the funding half, the officers stated that PFI receives doubtful funding from throughout the nation in addition to from overseas.

PFI and its associates keep giant variety of financial institution accounts and obtain cash via its well-wishers/financers primarily based in India and overseas.

It additionally collects Zakat (donations) from its rich supporters. Investigating its funds, the CBDT noticed its actions weren’t real.

The supply of deposits in 36 financial institution accounts, out of 85 accounts of PFI, weren’t supported by the monetary profile of the account holders, and actions of PFI weren’t being carried out in keeping with the objects of the belief.

The ED had raided a number of workplace premises and residences of PFI leaders in 2020 and 2021 for suspected cash laundering and arrested PFI leaders.

During the probe, it was discovered the PFI had created a really well-organised construction in Gulf international locations for elevating of funds and the collected fund was despatched to India via Hawala.

It was discovered PFI was working cash laundering fronts abroad, which included Munnar Villa vista venture in Kerala and Darbar restaurant in Abu Dhabi.

ALSO READ: Welcoming PFI ban, Kerala politicians voice for RSS boycott

In Munnar Villa vista venture, lakhs of unaccounted money had been infused and a few benami shareholders had been situated in UAE, who later transferred the shares to PFI leaders.

The PFI was parking its illegally raised funds on this venture in order to make use of them as and when required.

ED probe additionally revealed Anshad Badruddin (PFI, arrested by UP ATS in Lucknow in February 2021 with arms and explosives) had obtained greater than Rs 3 lakh from PFI (from 2018 to 2021) for prison actions.

The officers stated the PFI’s accountant in the course of the investigation, within the aftermath of Delhi riots, advised his interrogators that PFI’s headquarters at Shaheen Bagh, Delhi saved crores of unaccounted cash, which they use with none accountability.

Many instances of Hawala cash transactions had been being investigated by varied regulation enforcement companies in opposition to PFI.

NEW DELHI: The PFI, banned on Wednesday, was indulging in “disturbing” the nation’s communal and secular cloth and “posing a grave threat” to nationwide safety by advancing its radical ideology and looking for to determine “political Islam” in India in addition to focusing on Hindu activists, officers stated.

According to officers monitoring actions of the PFI and its members, a secret ‘service group’ was shaped, much like the ‘hit squads’ whose most important job was to supply safety to senior PFI leaders and likewise saved observe of Hindu leaders of their areas and plan motion in opposition to them.

They alleged the PFI covertly organises coaching workout routines, and military-like drills, the place contributors are skilled to make use of pressure and violence in opposition to sure non secular teams, that are perceived as enemy of Islam.

They additional alleged that since its inception, the PFI has been in opposition to Hindu organisations and its leaders and the group has a secret hit squad that engages in focused killings of Hindu activists and people allegedly indulging in blasphemy.

The PFI is alleged to have been repeatedly concerned in anti-government propaganda and spreading the narrative that Muslims had been being persecuted in India.

It had allegedly taken a lead in organising anti-CAA protests throughout December 2019-March 2020 and plenty of instances had been registered in opposition to them which included 51 in Uttar Pradesh alone the place the PFI-led platform, Samvidhan Suraksha Andolan, was amongst these which coordinated the anti-CAA agitations.

Through lively involvement within the protests, the PFI was capable of venture itself as a distinguished Muslim organisation able to safeguarding the pursuits of the group.

By projecting itself as a champion of Muslim causes, the PFI had been profitable in attracting new members through the years.

Its function within the Delhi riots was additionally investigated by the ED. In current years, the peaceable ambiance of the nation was threatened by PFI, which has presence in 17 states, officers stated.

The homicide of Praveen Nettaru in Bellare city on July 26 was one of many instances that uncovered the violent character of PFI.

ALSO READ: Kerala PFI common secretary proclaims outfit has been disbanded; nabbed

Nettaru, a member of Bhartiya Janata Yuva Morcha and an area businessman, was hacked to dying in typical ISIS type by bike-borne assailants and a lot of the accused within the case had affiliation with the PFI, the officers alleged.

An investigation by native police claimed a chilling story of cold-blooded homicide by PFI cadres and SDPI members in retaliation to the killing of 19-year-old Masood, a Muslim migrant labourer.

An inventory of RSS and Bajrang Dal members of the city was ready and some had been chosen to avenge Masood’s dying and Nettaru was chosen as he had commented on the halal concern, officers stated.

Disputing the claims of the PFI of being a social organisation working for the uplift of Muslims, the officers stated quite the opposite, the bottom actions of PFI inform a very completely different story with a number of of its cadres have a violent historical past.

Over 1400 prison instances had been registered in opposition to PFI cadres and its associates throughout the nation together with the UAPA, the Explosive Substances Act, Arms Act and different sections of the IPC.

The officers claimed that interrogation of the accused in varied instances confirmed that the PFI would determine Muslim youths, from a poor or middle-class background, for bodily coaching throughout which they had been additionally inculcated with anti-Hindutva ideology.

These cadres had been skilled in dealing with knife, sword, rods and how you can assault particular physique elements to inflict most harm.

On July 4, Telangana Police registered a case in opposition to 27 individuals after a coaching camp for 200 PFI cadres was present in Nizamabad.

The PFI had been attempting laborious to make inroads into Telangana to extend its cadre base and was enterprise social programmes like distributing college books and meals to the poor.

The officers alleged there have been numerous cases of worldwide linkages of PFI with world terrorist teams the place a few of PFI activists, notably from Kerala, had joined ISIS and had participated in terror actions in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, which was the end result of steady radicalisation of its cadres.

ALSO READ: Centre bans PFI and its associates for 5 years over terror hyperlinks

While investigating the international funding path of PFI, the ED discovered that PFI had shaped district government committees in varied gulf international locations together with the UAE, Oman, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia.

The India Fraternity Forum (IFF) and Indian Social Forum (ISF) had been PFI’s abroad fronts and had been to politically have interaction the expatriate Muslims to evolve to their ideology and organise funds for actions of PFI in India.

Their government committees had been answerable for sending cash to PFI in India with out leaving any path.

Funds had been typically collected in money and remitted to India both via hawala channels or camouflaged as remittances by sending it to the accounts of India-based family members and buddies of PFI’s members and sympathisers working overseas.

Further, PFI had linkages with the dreaded Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh, which was concerned in a number of terror incidents in that nation.

Also, 21 individuals having linkages with the PFI had joined the internationally banned ISIS terror group.

Some Al-Qaeda within the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) coaching movies, depicting grotesque murders, had been recovered from the PFI cadre accused within the professor TJ Joseph hand-chopping case in 2010.

PFI’s prime leaders had visited Turkey in 2018 and 2019 to attend programmes associated to Palestine.

Its radical actions had attracted the eye of a global radical outfit specifically, the Party of Islamic Renewal, which had in April despatched a web-based letter to PFI on the Twitter, praising its actions and urging it to organise a ‘Revolutionary Army’ for Jihad in opposition to the Indian authorities.

Pertinently, PFI has additionally been focusing on leaders of the Sufi Islamic Board, who had been campaigning consistently for a ban on the PFI.

Officials stated since its inception in 2006, the PFI inspired its cadres to undertake actions that mar peace and concord amongst non secular teams and disrupt secular cloth of the nation.

Giving a quick historical past, they stated on December 9, 2006, three south Indian Muslim fundamentalist teams — National Development Front/NDF, Kerala; Karnataka Forum for Dignity/KFD, Karnataka; and Manitha Neethi Pasarai/MNP, Tamil Nadu, rechristened ‘South India Council’ (a Bengaluru-based organisation floated by NDF in 2004) as ‘Popular Front of India’.

Several members of PFI, together with its prime management, had been lively members of banned SIMI which included EM Abdul Rahiman (former Chairman), E Abubacker (Member, National Executive Council/NEC) and P Koya (Member, NEC).

SIMI was banned in 2001 underneath the UAPA for anti-national actions. In their oath of allegiance, the PFI cadres swear to sacrifice their lives for the creation of Allah’s rule (Shariah).

This oath was administered to the cadre solely when he was judged to have been suitably radicalised for the group.

PFI recruits had been radicalised by the show of selective video clippings on emotive points like Babri Masjid demolition, communal riots in Gujarat and different elements of the nation, aimed toward instilling a way of Muslim persecution and mistrust in opposition to the State in addition to different communities.

The officers claimed that in interrogation by the ED (December 2020), Rauf Sharief (former common secretary, CFI), had stated that PFI runs a secret aid wing, which really plans and executes revenge assaults on chosen RSS leaders.

On the funding half, the officers stated that PFI receives doubtful funding from throughout the nation in addition to from overseas.

PFI and its associates keep giant variety of financial institution accounts and obtain cash via its well-wishers/financers primarily based in India and overseas.

It additionally collects Zakat (donations) from its rich supporters. Investigating its funds, the CBDT noticed its actions weren’t real.

The supply of deposits in 36 financial institution accounts, out of 85 accounts of PFI, weren’t supported by the monetary profile of the account holders, and actions of PFI weren’t being carried out in keeping with the objects of the belief.

The ED had raided a number of workplace premises and residences of PFI leaders in 2020 and 2021 for suspected cash laundering and arrested PFI leaders.

During the probe, it was discovered the PFI had created a really well-organised construction in Gulf international locations for elevating of funds and the collected fund was despatched to India via Hawala.

It was discovered PFI was working cash laundering fronts abroad, which included Munnar Villa vista venture in Kerala and Darbar restaurant in Abu Dhabi.

ALSO READ: Welcoming PFI ban, Kerala politicians voice for RSS boycott

In Munnar Villa vista venture, lakhs of unaccounted money had been infused and a few benami shareholders had been situated in UAE, who later transferred the shares to PFI leaders.

The PFI was parking its illegally raised funds on this venture in order to make use of them as and when required.

ED probe additionally revealed Anshad Badruddin (PFI, arrested by UP ATS in Lucknow in February 2021 with arms and explosives) had obtained greater than Rs 3 lakh from PFI (from 2018 to 2021) for prison actions.

The officers stated the PFI’s accountant in the course of the investigation, within the aftermath of Delhi riots, advised his interrogators that PFI’s headquarters at Shaheen Bagh, Delhi saved crores of unaccounted cash, which they use with none accountability.

Many instances of Hawala cash transactions had been being investigated by varied regulation enforcement companies in opposition to PFI.