The court remanded the PFI leaders to NIA custody till September 30

11 Popular Front of India(PFI) leaders & activists have been given to the custody of the National Investigation Agency(NIA) till September 30, by a Kochi special court on Saturday. The PFI activists were arrested on September 22.

In simultaneous raids against terrorism across the nation, a joint operation spearheaded by the NIA & ED on September 22, resulted in arrest of 106 activists & leaders of the Popular Front of India for allegedly supporting terror activities in the country, officials had said.

The NIA has raised serious allegations against the PFI and its arrested leaders, and claimed that the seized documents during the raids contain highly incriminating materials targeting prominent leaders of a particular community.

The investigation agency also alleged that the radical Islamist outfit motivated Indian Muslim youths to join terrorist groups, including Lashkar-e-Taiba, Islamic State (IS) and Al-Qaida.