NIA ARRESTS ABSCONDING PFI MASTER TRAINER FROM KANNUR IN BANNED OUTFIT’S KERALA CONSPIRACY CASE

New Delhi, 12th Feb : The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday arrested an absconding master trainer of the banned Popular Front of India (PFI) from his house in Kannur district of Kerala.
The accused, identified as Jafar Bheemantavida, was on the run in the PFI Kerala case (RC-02/2022/NIA/KOC), relating to a conspiracy by the proscribed organisation to establish an Islamic Rule in India by 2047. He was eventually tracked down to his Kannur house by the NIA Fugitive Tracking Team and ATS, Kerala.

Jafar is the 59th accused to be arrested in the case, in which NIA has so far chargesheeted 60 persons.
NIA investigations have revealed that Jafar Bheemantavida was part of the PFI machinery that had been operating clandestinely to establish an Islamic Rule in India by 2047. He was suspected to be a PFI master trainer, engaged in imparting weapons training to PFI cadres to prepare them to operate as members if Service Team/ Hit Squads of the organisation. Such team / squad is mandated with the responsibility of carrying out targeted attacks and using force in execution of the orders of the PFI leadership.
Jafar was also earlier involved in various ‘attempt to murder’ and assault cases in Kerala, as per the NIA investigations, which are still continuing. Efforts are also on to trace the other absconding accused involved in the conspiracy.