Police have detained 15 Widespread Entrance of India (PFI) employees on fees of spreading communal hatred and hatching legal conspiracies, officers mentioned on Friday.
Police commissioner CH Pratap Reddy mentioned the suspects had been picked up for questioning in reference to a suo motu case registered on the metropolis’s KG Halli police station.
The commissioner maintained that the detention was not a part of the nationwide raids performed by the NIA in opposition to terror-funding suspects.
Reddy mentioned based mostly on sure credible inputs of the NIA and central businesses, town police registered a primary info report (FIR) in opposition to 19 PFI members at KG Halli police station in Bengaluru East on Wednesday.
“The FIR recognized 19 males from totally different locations of the state. They’re from Bengaluru, Mysuru, Mangaluru, Dakshina Kannada, Shivamogga, Davanagere and Koppal. Out of 19 suspects, we managed to detain 15, together with two from Bengaluru. The remaining 13 will likely be delivered to town for additional investigation,” mentioned Reddy.
In keeping with Reddy, the suspects had been booked beneath totally different sections of IPC for selling enmity between totally different teams on grounds of faith, race, homeland, residence, language, and so forth and doing acts prejudicial to the upkeep of concord and legal conspiracy.
On Thursday, the NIA carried out raids on the workplaces of the Social Democratic Celebration of India (SDPI) and PFI and residences of their key office-bearers in Karnataka, detaining a few of them, officers mentioned.
Simultaneous raids had been performed in Mysuru, Dakshina Kannada, Uttara Kannada, Shivamogga, Kalaburagi, Davanagere, Raichur and Koppal, in keeping with Karnataka police.
Karnataka residence minister Araga Jnanendra on Thursday mentioned the process to impose a everlasting ban on PFI and SDPI has begun on the central authorities stage.
“Everybody is aware of concerning the misdeeds that SDPI and PFI organisations are indulging in. The world ought to know the way they handle to get funds and who backs them. To wash the mess that had been created by them, raids had been very a lot mandatory,” the minister mentioned.
“These organisations have grown to this proportion solely with the direct and oblique help of the Congress occasion all these years. If these organisations must be minimize to measurement, one shouldn’t have a look at faith, caste, loss or revenue. Everybody ought to cooperate,” he added.