PFI, 8 related fronts banned by govt for five yrs after large nationwide crackdown

The Ministry of House Affairs, on Wednesday, banned radical outfit Common Entrance of India (PFI) for 5 years for alleged hyperlinks to terror funding. This comes after the Nationwide Investigation Company (NIA), Enforcement Directorate (ED) and state police performed two rounds of raids on the PFI on September 22 and 27 throughout a number of areas within the nation. 

Together with PFI, its affiliate organisations together with Rehab India Basis (RIF), Campus Entrance of India (CFI), All India Imams Council (AIIC), Nationwide Confederation of Human Rights Group (NCHRO), Nationwide Girls’s Entrance, Junior Entrance, Empower India Basis and Rehab Basis, Kerala have additionally banned.

The MHA mentioned in its order that PFI and its associates and associates indulged in illegal actions prejudicial to the integrity, sovereignty and safety of the nation with the potential to disturb peace and communal concord of the nation and supporting militancy. It added that PFI’s founding members had been leaders of College students’ Islamic Motion of India (SIMI) and that PFI has hyperlinks with Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) – each of that are proscribed organisations. 

The ministry added that there have been a variety of “cases of worldwide linkages of PFI with international terrorist teams like Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)”. It added that PFI has been working covertly to extend radicalisation of “one group by selling a way of insecurity within the nation”. It’s substantiated by the truth that some PFI cadres have joined worldwide terrorist organisations, mentioned MHA.

The choice to ban the organisation was primarily based on the demand by a number of states to ban PFI, together with the report of the investigating businesses. 

As many as 106 folks related to PFI had been arrested within the first spherical of raids, whereas 247 folks had been arrested or detained by the businesses within the second spherical. 

The NIA together with different businesses carried out raids on PFI members beneath Operation Octopus in Delhi, Karnataka, Assam, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, and Telangana on Tuesday. Within the first spherical too – on September 22 – the NIA raided 93 areas throughout 15 states together with Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Telengana, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Delhi, Assam, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Goa, West Bengal, Bihar and Manipur.

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