NIA raids in Karnataka in connection with PFI 'plot to kill PM Modi'

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) is conducting raids at multiple locations in Bengaluru's Dakshina Kannada district. Wednesday's NIA raids are in connection with a conspiracy by the banned outfit Popular Front of India (PFI) to kill Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his visit to Patna in July 2022.

 

 

The Enforcement Directorate (ED), last year in its remand note against PFI member Shafeeque Payeth, had said that the PFI had conspired to target PM Modi during his visit to Patna on July 12, 2022. Additionally, the ED claimed that the PFI was preparing terror modules and other attacks.

 

NIA officials are raiding 16 places, including Beltangadi, Puttur, Bantwala, Uppinangadi and Venura of Dakshina Kannada district. The raids are part of a probe into the plot of the banned organisation to attack PM Modi on July 12, 2022 at a rally in Bihar.

 

According to NIA sources, officials are conducting document verification at 16 places with the help of local police. Houses, offices and hospitals linked to the activists of the banned Popular Front of India (PFI) were searched simultaneously in Mangaluru as well as Puttur, Beltangady, Uppinangady, Venur and Bantwal.

 

 

 

PFI allegedly received money from gulf countries to plot terror activities in India. The raids are an attempt to crackdown on South India's PFI hawala money network.

 

Five people were arrested in Patna for indulging in anti-national activities following raids in the Phulwari Sharif area last year in 2022. The raids also led to the recovery of several incriminating documents, including PFI's 'Mission 2047' which allegedly had Prime Minister Narendra Modi on their radar.

 

NIA sources believe there might be a possibility of their network in Dakshin Kannada which is why a team of NIA officials had come to Dakshina Kannada district on the trail of investigation.