The Central Authorities on Tuesday banned the Common Entrance of India (PFI), declaring the outfit and all its associates, associates and fronts as unlawful for a interval of 5 years underneath the Illegal Actions (Prevention) Act is (UAPA). With this, the PFI has been added to the checklist of 42 banned terrorist organisations underneath Part 35 of the UAPA.
As per the notification launched by the Ministry of Dwelling Affairs on Tuesday, PFI’s affiliate organisations — Rehab India Basis (RIF), Campus Entrance of India (CFI), All India Imams Council (AIIC), Nationwide Confederation of Human Rights Group (NCHRO), Nationwide Ladies’s Entrance, Junior Entrance, Empower India Basis and Rehab Basis, Kerala — have additionally been banned
This comes a day after over 270 individuals linked to the PFI had been detained or arrested in a sequence of raids throughout seven states. The police in Karnataka had been on the forefront of the operations, detaining “as a precautionary measure” greater than 80 members of the PFI and its political wing, Social Democratic Social gathering of India (SDPI), within the state. The motion was taken over inputs of attainable disturbance to public order, officers mentioned. Raids had been additionally carried out in Delhi, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Assam, Madhya Pradesh and UP.
Robust & well timed motion by Central Authorities, MHA that has banned the #PFI for a interval of 5 years.
However we’ve got seen up to now how Congress, SP, RJD, Left , and so forth have given political patronage to terror in identify of votebank
How Congress allowed PFI free run in Rajasthan 1/n pic.twitter.com/Hn3zv9bImo
— Shehzad Jai Hind (@Shehzad_Ind) September 28, 2022
Final Thursday, a multi-agency nationwide operation in 15 states spearheaded by the Nationwide Investigation Company (NIA) and regulation enforcement companies had led to the arrest of over 100 PFI staff, together with the outfit’s chairman O M A Salam.
Reacting to the event, BJP’s nationwide spokesperson, Shehzad Poonawalla tweeted: “Robust & well timed motion by Central Authorities, MHA that has banned the #PFI for a interval of 5 years. However we’ve got seen up to now how Congress, SP, RJD, Left, and so forth have given political patronage to terror in identify of votebank.”