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Six persons detained over links with PFI get bail
Prevention action under Criminal Procedure Code Section 151(3) has been taken in the backdrop of the recent crackdown on the PFI, says official
The Kondhwa police detained six members allegedly linked to the Popular Front of India (PFI) and its political wing Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) early Tuesday morning. Later in the day they were granted bail.
The prevention action under Criminal Procedure Code Section 151(3) has been taken in the backdrop of the recent crackdown on the PFI by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS), senior police inspector Sardar Patil from Kondhwa police station said.
“We have detained six people linked to the PFI and SDPI from Kondhwa area in Pune city on Tuesday morning as part of maintenance of law and order here,” he said.
Those detained have been identified as Abdul Aziz Bansal, Maaz Faizan Shaikh, Kashif Nazeer Shaikh, Mohammad Kais Anwar Shaikh, Dilawar Kareem Sayyed and Ainul Rashid Momin. They will be produced before the appropriate court, said, officials.
Defence counsel MM Sayyed, said, “The six persons were let off on bail by the court. We said that there is not a single offence against them and there is no documentary basis that there are members of PFI. We gave an undertaking before the JMFC cantonment court that the youths will be out of Pune for ten days during the Navratra festival. The court agreed to it and released them ”
The Bund Garden police had earlier detained 40 activists of PFI for staging a protest outside the district collectorate on September 24 a day after NIA-ED-ATS conducted raids and search operations at the PFI office and party leaders in connection with a case related to alleged terror funding and recruitment youth for carrying out subversive activities.
Abdul Qayyum (49), former vice-president of PFI, Pune district and Razi Ahmed Khan (45), a PFI office bearer, were arrested from Pune in the case.
(With Agency inputs)
