The Popular Front of India (PFI) has been extensively using social media for recruiting youths for anti-national activities and one of the modules of the now-banned outfit even had prepared to attack foreigners, especially Jews visiting Vattakkanal, a hill station in Tamil Nadu, officials said.
According to an investigation carried out by the National Investigation Agency (NIA), the module comprising about 15 youths and their associates from southern States, mostly PFI members or those attracted to the global terror group ISIS, had also conspired to attack High Court judges, senior police officers and Muslims belonging to Ahmediya sect with the intention of committing terror acts within India.
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