Assam Police arrest 11 PFI leaders with the recent arrest of West Bengal State President

Guwahati, Sept 24: The Assam Police on Friday (Sept 23) arrested one more leader of the Popular Front of India (PFI), it informed. According to the Additional Director General of Police, the recently arrested PFI leader has been identified as Dr Minarul Seikh who hailed from West Bengal and was arrested from Delhi.

 

 

 

 

Seikh is the PFI's state president in West Bengal. "The person hailing from West Bengal has been arrested from Delhi," said Hiren Nath, ADGP (Special Branch) of Assam police. The police further informed that so far 11 PFI leaders and workers have been arrested under sections 120B, 124 (A), 153(A), and 353 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). According to the police, the accused were allegedly provoking the people against the government with the aim to spread mistrust among the public.

 

 

 

 

 

Earlier on Thursday (Sept 22), the Assam Police arrested 10 PFI leaders- identified as- Aminul Hoque, Abdul Razzak, Robiul Hussain, Nazrul Islam Bhuyan, Rafiqul Islam, Abu Sama Ahmed, Farhad Ali, Khalilur Rahman, Mufti Rahmatullah and Bazlul Karim for allegedly making efforts to foment communal strife throughout the state. The leaders had been extensively using Cyber Space to provoke the people for defying the government and to divide the society on religious lines and obstructing the execution of policies.

 

 

According to Assam Police, the aforesaid 10 arrested persons were indulging in whipping the communal passion and sentiments of the religious minority by criticizing every policy of the government with communal overtones which include the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), NRC (National Register of Citizens) and 'D'-Voter, the new state Education Policy, Cattle Protection Act, an extension of AFSPA, TET examination, Agnipath scheme, eviction of encroached government lands with a view to term these actions of the Government as an attack on the Muslim community.