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 Digital Desk: Ten leaders of the Popular Front of India (PFI) were arrested on Thursday by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in joint raids conducted with Assam police across the state.

 

Aminul Hoque, Abdul Razzak, Robiul Hussain, Nazrul Islam Bhuyan, Rafiqul Islam, Abu Sama Ahmed, Farhad Ali, Khalilur Rahman, Mufti Rahmatullah, and Bazul Karim are among those detained. They were apprehended during raids in Guwahati, Nagarbera, Samaguri, Barpeta, Karimganj, and Baksa.

PFI's northeast regional secretary is Aminul Hoque, the Assam unit president is Abu Sama Ahmed, and the state unit general secretary is Robiul Hussain. Rafiqul Islam and Mufti Rahmatullah, district presidents of the PFI's Nagaon and Barpeta units, were also arrested.

 

Hoque was previously arrested in December 2019 for allegedly inciting violence during anti-Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) protests in which five people died as a result of police firing and extensive public property damage occurred.

Farhad Ali ran in the state assembly election as the official candidate of the All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) from the Mathanguri constituency last year. He was the opposition's unifying candidate, alongside Congress, the AIUDF, and eight other parties.

 

The arrested leaders have been charged under sections 120-B, 124-A, 153-A, and 353 of the Indian Penal Code for criminal conspiracy, sedition, promoting enmity between different groups, and using assault or criminal force to deter public servants from performing their duties.

 

According to an Assam Police statement, these leaders were apprehended based on credible information that they were attempting to foment communal strife throughout the state.

 

"They were indulging in whipping the communal passions and sentiments of the religious minority by criticising every government policy with communal overtones, including CAA, National Register of Citizens (NRC), and 'D'-Voter (doubtful voter)," according to the statement.

 

It is alleged that the leaders were spreading falsehoods about the new state education policy, Cattle Protection Act, extension of Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA), Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) examination, Agnipath defence scheme and eviction of encroached government lands “with a view to term these actions of the government as an attack on the Muslim community”.

 

 

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