"Witch-Hunt Using Tools Of Hindutva": Popular Front (PFI) On Raids, Terror Charges
NDTV
Top leaders of the Muslim organisation PFI and its political wing were arrested in multi-state action by NIA and other agencies last week
Calling recent raids and arrests by central government agencies "a drama" and "witch hunt", the Popular Front of India said these were "intended to generate terror".
The agencies arrested more than 100 leaders of the Muslim organisation PFI and its political wing Social Democratic Party of India last week in raids across several states. They have been charged under the stringent anti-terror law UAPA and accused of planning strikes across India, including an alleged plot to assassinate Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
In a statement today, the PFI said the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) are "two servile tools in the hands of the Hindutva regime at the Centre".
"This was a deliberate attempt to generate a feeling of terror among people about PFI, a legally and transparently functioning organisation," the statement added. "The arrested leaders were neither fugitives nor in hideouts... So, there was no need of any 'crackdown' as being propagated by the agencies and the media."
