New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate has claimed that the Popular Front of India (PFI) had planned to attack Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Patna in July this year and had also organized a training camp in Bihar’s capital city in this regard.
It is alleged that PFI was engaged in terror modules, collection of deadly weapons and explosives to launch other attacks.
According to media reports, the outfit was in contact with foreigners for finances and was also planning attacks in other parts of the country.
PFI raised Rs 120 crore: ED
The ED said that the organization has raised around Rs 120 crore in the last few years in order to carry out riots and terrorist activities across the country. Not only this, apart from inciting violence for the Delhi riots of February 2020, this money was also used to incite riots in Hathras, reports said.
Action against PFI named ‘Operation Octopus’
The NIA had launched ‘Operation Octopus’ to take action against the PFI. On September 22, over 106 PFI members were arrested in several raids conducted by a joint team of NIA, ED and state police in 11 states.
The ED had detained three other office bearers of the organization from Delhi, namely: Parvez Ahmed, Mohammad Ilyas and Abdul Muqeet.
The agency has questioned all of them several times since the money laundering probe against PFI began in 2018.
