Indian authorities have arrested Muslim leaders in 11 states.
REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, NEW DELHI – India’s National Investigation Agency and Law Enforcement Directorate arrested at least 100 Indian Popular Front (PFI) leaders and prominent Islamic figures on Thursday (22/9/2022). The arrests are believed to be part of a campaign of raids by Indian intelligence and other state agencies on the offices and homes of Muslim leaders in 11 states.
reported from Middle East Monitors, On Saturday (24/09/2022), Indian National Intelligence Service officials described the raids and arrests as “the largest investigative operation ever conducted in India to date”. President PFI OMA Abdul Salam, Vice President EM Abdul Rahman, National Secretary Nasruddin Al Maram and Head of Kerala Unit Muhammad Bashir were arrested in Kerala.
Indian authorities have also arrested prominent Islamic figures in Kerala, including former PFI Chairman and founder of the Social Democratic Party of India (SDI), Erappungal Abubacker, and veteran journalist and Secretary General of the National Confederation of Human Rights (NCHRO), P Koya. .
Several people arrested in the raid by Indian authorities were arraigned in Patiala House court on Thursday evening, while five PFI members were arrested in court in Mumbai.
The National Investigation Agency also arrested PFI Delhi chief Parvez Ahmed and his brother from Okhla at 3:30 a.m. Thursday.
A total of 1,500 personnel from India’s Police, National Investigation Agency, Directorate of Law Enforcement and Central Armed Police took part in the raid, which began at 01:00 a.m. local time and is expected to end at 5 a.m. local time, according to the report. International Asian News.
City of The Indian Express PFI was formed in 2007 by the merger of three South Indian Muslim organisations, the National Democratic Front in Kerala, the Karnataka Forum for Dignity and Manitha Neethi Pasarai in Tamil Nadu.
PFI, which emerged after the banning of the Student Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), has projected itself as an organization that fights for the rights of minorities, Dalits and marginalized communities. They often criticize what are considered anti-people policies of Congress, BJP and JD-S in Karnataka.
