The National Investigation Agency has attached two floors of a Pune school building where the agency said the Popular Front of India (PFI) had held camps to radicalise Muslims to carry out targeted killings and attacks against the government and leaders of a “particular community”.
The two floors were attached on Sunday as “proceeds of terrorism” under the UAPA in a case registered on April 13, 2022, the NIA said. “The fourth and fifth floors of the Blue Bell School Building were used by PFI to plan and prepare for carrying out terrorist activities with the aim of endangering the unity, integrity and security of India. PFI was recruiting innocent Muslim youths into the outfit on these premises and also providing them with armed and unarmed training to eliminate or attack those opposed to the establishment of Islamic rule in the country by 2047,” an NIA spokesperson said.
“The NIA filed a chargesheet on March 18 before the NIA special court in Delhi against 20 accused, including the PFI as an organisation,” the spokesperson said.
“The NIA conducted a search of the two floors on September 22 last year. The agency had seized incriminating documents, which revealed that the property was used by the accused, found to be associated with the PFI, for organising arms training for its cadres. The training camps served as platforms to incite innocent Muslim youths against the government as well as leaders and organisations of a particular community. The camps were also used to inflame their passions and provoke them into embracing violent jihad, with the aim of committing terrorist activities,” the spokesperson said.
“The newly recruited PFI cadres were trained in the use of dangerous weapons like knife and sickle etc., for attacking and murdering prominent leaders opposed to the outfit’s ideology of establishing Islamic rule in India,” the spokesperson said.
The NIA earlier said its investigations revealed that the accused people were part of a criminal conspiracy to establish a caliphate and Islamic rule in India by waging war against the country and toppling the democratically elected government.
“They were all identified as senior PFI cadres or NEC members or accountants or authorised signatories of the PFI’s bank accounts. The NIA has been investigating the activities of the PFI, which was declared as an unlawful association in September 2022,” the spokesperson said.
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