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Massive crackdown on PFI functionaries; NIA arrests over 100 activists during countrywide raids

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Shailesh Khanduri
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Massive crackdown on PFI functionaries; NIA arrests over 100 activists during countrywide raids

New Delhi: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday morning launched a massive nationwide search operation against Popular Front of India (PFI) and arrested over 100 activists for allegedly supporting terrorists. 

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The anti-terror agency is carrying out raids in coordination with Enforcement Directorate and state police in Uttar Pradesh, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Karnataka and other states.

In the "largest ever investigation till date", the searches are taking place at the premises of those allegedly involved in terror funding, organising training camps, and radicalising people to join proscribed organisations, they said.

"The raids are taking place at the homes of national, state and local leaders of PFI. The state committee office is also being raided.

"We strongly protest the fascist regime's moves to use agencies to silence dissenting voices," the outfit said in a statement.

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