The Karnataka Police Tuesday detained greater than 80 members of the Fashionable Entrance of India (PFI) and Social Democratic Occasion of India (SDPI) throughout an early morning operation as a safety measure, mentioned officers.
Officers mentioned these activists of PFI and SDPI have been nabbed from totally different elements of the state, equivalent to Mangaluru, Bagalkot, Bidar, Raichur, Gadag and different cities, over inputs of doable disturbance to public order.
Alok Kumar, Further Director Common of Police (Regulation and Order), mentioned the 80 individuals who have been nabbed have been produced earlier than the taluk Justice of the Peace and despatched to preventive custody. The length of preventive custody various as some have been taken into custody for every week, whereas others have been taken for 10 or 15 days, added Kumar.
Other than the 80, scrutiny of 20 folks was on to evaluate whether or not to take them into custody or not, Kumar instructed reporters. Preventive custody of those activists was to keep up peace within the society as they needed to foment hassle and “create an impression that legislation and order within the state had gone for a toss,” he mentioned.
SDPI state president Abdul Majeed Mysore accused the ‘communal, fascist BJP authorities’ of concentrating on its political rivals. The Nationwide Investigation Company (NIA) had a warrant solely towards PFI leaders, he mentioned, accusing the company of misusing it towards PFI and Campus Entrance of India (CFI) leaders.
“An try is being made to terrorise our get together, PFI and CFI organisations by arresting harmless folks for mere political grudges with none foundation. We strongly condemn this,” mentioned Majeed in a press release.
Earlier within the day, Residence Minister Araga Jnanendra mentioned SDPI and PFI employees have been detained as a precautionary measure. These employees had created a tense scenario by protesting within the streets throughout the current raids by the NIA on their leaders, he mentioned.
Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai mentioned that the police had not carried out any raids. “They’ve taken preventive measures with help from tahsildars,” he mentioned.
Related raids have been performed in Gujarat, Delhi, Maharashtra, Assam, Madhya Pradesh, and Uttar Pradesh as properly. The newest crackdown comes 5 days after such searches have been performed throughout India towards PFI.
On September 22, multi-agency groups led by the NIA had arrested 106 PFI leaders and activists from 15 states for allegedly supporting terror actions within the nation.