The case pertains to a bomb blast at Court Complex Ludhiana on December 23, 2021, in which one person was killed and six persons were injured.
This is the 14th arrest by the NIA in connection with the case after it registered an FIR on September 19 of this year
The agency said that its probe revealed that the accused persons were radicalising gullible Muslim youth and recruiting them into the PFI
"In the year of Azaadi ka amrit mahotsav, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's goal is to have a nasha-mukt bharat," Shah said, speaking on the floor of the lower house.
The Rajasthan Police have registered a case under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), suspecting the explosion on the railway track between Jaipur and Ahmedabad was an act of terrorism. The New Indian also learned that India’s anti-terror probe agency, the National Investigative Agency (NIA), may take over the probe into the matter. Sources also […]
Five days after an LPG cylinder exploded in a car in Tamil Nadu’s Coimbatore, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday took over the case to investigate the terror angle.
Since its inception, PFI members have been involved in many criminal activities.
The NIA probe found that a spokesperson of Hindu Munnani was killed by the members of the PFI to create terror among a particular section of people.
In some serious allegations against the PFI, the NIA said that the organisation forced youngsters to join proscribed terror organisations like Al-Qaeda, Lashkar-e-Taiba, ISS and others.
In a nationwide predawn crackdown on the PFI, the NIA, along with the ED and state police, arrested a total of 106 people associated with the organisation.