The Enforcement Directorate has arrested a Kerala leader of the Popular Front of India (PFI), M.K. Ashraf, following several rounds of questioning in connection with a money laundering case.
On Wednesday, the PFI issued a statement quoting its chairman, O.M.A. Salam, who condemned the arrest. He described the ED action as part of the “ongoing witch-hunt against the organisation”. Ashraf was arrested on Tuesday and taken to Lucknow. The agency has got his custody till April 19.
The organisation alleged that the agency had registered a false case against it about four years ago under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA); and that its leaders from the national and State levels had been cooperating in the probe.
