To target leaders and workers of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the outlawed terror group Popular Front of India (PFI) assembled an elite squad known as “Reporters.” These “reporters” received training on how to attack BJP and RSS members as well as how to carry out their evil plans. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) made the shocking disclosures in its supplemental charge sheet, which it presented to the Patiala House Court in Delhi.
According to Aaj Tak, the CIA claimed in its amended charge sheet that the “Reporters” group was formed especially to go after BJP-RSS members. The people engaged were designed to find and hit their targets.
The Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) case, which is reportedly worth Rs 120 crore, has seen the ED submit a supplemental chargesheet to the court against 12 PFI members. The charge sheet claims that PFI made Rs 120 crore through illegal activity. Of this total, PFI’s bank account received a direct deposit of sixty crore.
According to the agency, the banned extremist group was utilising the money for unlawful activities, such as housing PFI members who had used violence and paying for their marriages. Under the pretence of training, PFI trained its members for violence and murder, the ED further revealed. Those who received this training were also encouraged to commit crimes.
The Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA)-related manipulation of rupees was the main subject of the ED probe. But the investigation found that PFI was using this money to incite violence among its members. But PFI has denied these allegations. Although the organization’s national general secretary, Anees Ahmed, stated that PFI is solely engaged in India, the charge sheet revealed that hundreds of PFI members are employed in Gulf countries. They gather funds and transfer them to the radical organisation in India.
This information relates to 14,428 foreign residents that ED has gathered. The information was found on a hard drive that had been removed from Unity House in Kozhikode. The names of the employees range from the capital city of Saudi Arabia, Riyadh, to Jeddah, Dammam, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, and Oman, in addition to other Asian nations, demonstrating the extensive network of PFI.
Notably, on September 28, 2022, PFI was deemed an “unlawful association” by the Indian government, which also temporarily outlawed the group for five years in accordance with the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act. Because of the organization’s ties to terrorist groups such as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, Jamat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh, and the Students Islamic Movement of India, the government reasoned that it was “prejudicial to the integrity, sovereignty, and security of the country.”