Modi government would soon be banning the Islamist organisation Popular Front of India (PFI).
There has been a demand to place a ban on these organizations for the past several years. Many politicians, after speaking belligerently in favour of the proposal, have lost steam thereafter. Everytime some serious incidents occur, the government has been biding time by claiming that the ban proposal is under serious consideration with the work of pooling together documents in progress and so on. Once the incidents get erased from public memory, the government too loses interest.
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The PFI is already outlawed in numerous states, but the government intends to ban it through a centralised notification.
Both the Enforcement Directorate and the National Investigation Agency have produced intelligence findings recommending that PFI be banned. PFI is an outgrowth of the Students’ Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), which was proscribed in 2001 following the 9/11 terror attacks in the United States, according to the NIA dossier. The NIA used the fact that the same people had served on the boards of both organisations to buttress its argument. Meanwhile, according to the ED’s investigation, this group was crucial in generating funding for anti-CAA protests.
The Intelligence Bureau has said that the PFI is violent in nature. They one point agenda is to attack the Right Wing. They preach to their cadres that attacking those who oppose Islam would earn them religious rewards. The PFI has been accused of chopping off a professor's hand who had allegedly hurt religious sentiments in Kerala. 37 PFI cadres were arrested.
In an affidavit before the Kerala High Court, it was submitted that the PFI was involved in 27 murders. In another report, the Kerala government said that there was 87 attempt to murder cases against PFI cadres.
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