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FIR charges PFI of ‘waging war against State’, names 19 persons

NIA search operations were carried out at Popular Front of India (PFI) party office in Bengaluru. (Source: Special Arrangement)

The First Information Report (FIR) registered by the Anti Terrorist Cell, Bengaluru City Police, against members of Popular Front of India (PFI) alleges that the organisation runs an “organised conspiracy to radicalise Muslim youth towards violent acts of extremist nature”, imparting training in using lethal weapons and deputing them to “undertake targeted attacks on persons having a certain religious and socio-political lineage.”

“The larger aim of the conspiracy is to create social unrest and disaffection against India by inciting people to defy the government established by law thereby threatening the unity, sovereignty and integrity of the nation and to wage war against the Government of India through its cadres,” the FIR alleges.

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