4 Popular Front members booked for 'anti-national activities' in Nizamabad
India Today
Popular Front of India (PFI) members, who were arrested from Nizamabad, have been booked on charges of conspiring and attempting to promote enmity between groups.
Four Popular Front members, who were arrested after a raid on July 4, have been booked under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) on charges of conspiring and attempting to create religious animosity and promote enmity between groups.
The members have been identified as Shaik Shadulla (40), Mohammed Imran (22) and Mohammed Abdul Mobin (27) of Nizamabad and Abdul Khader, a 52-year-old karate instructor, who has been training nearly 200 PFI recruits in martial arts and weapons for the last six months.
On raiding the home of one of the accused, police discovered two PFI banners along with one white board, three sets of loose paper bunches, three hand books, a note book, some bus and train tickets, a podium and a speaker.
According to Deputy Commissioner of Police, Ravindra Babu, it was found that there are mentions of 'anti-national activities' in the books.
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He said, "During the course of investigation, Abdul Qader revealed that main purpose of PFI seems to be to carry out service programmes and internally, to do things according to their agenda, to select innocent and active Muslim youths and inculcate anti-Hindu ideology in them and then give them all kinds of training, especially physical training."
DCP further stated, "Abdul Qadar confessed that similar workshops are being conducted along with physical training elsewhere by PFI Nizamabad."