HYDERABAD: Six months after Telangana police busted an alleged terror camp cum recruitment drive of Popular Front of India (PFI) in Nizamabad district, the National Investigation Agency on Thursday filed chargesheet against 11 accused.
NIA officials in a press note issued on Friday said that the 11 accused includes alleged PFI members from Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.
"Investigations have revealed that the accused persons were radicalizing gullible Muslim youth and recruiting them into the PFI through speeches filled with hatred and venom against the government of India as well as other organisations and individuals. Once recruited into the PFI, the Muslim youth were sent to Training Camps organized by the PFI under the cover and guise of Yoga Classes and Physical Education (PE) Beginners Course (BC), where they were trained in the use of everyday articles (knife, sickle and iron rods) to kill a person by attacking vulnerable body parts, such as throat, stomach and head and for commission of terror acts, " NIA officials said.
In the month of July, Telangana police conducted raids on training camps of PFI, and arrested few persons. Later, in the month of August, NIA had taken over the investigation and registered a fresh FIR. They conducted simultaneous raids in Telangana and AP. It was in September, Union Government imposed ban on PFI.
The accused persons chargesheeted under sections 120B, 153(A) of IPC, Sections 17, 18, 18A & 18B of Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA). Most of the accused are from Nizamabad of Telangana and Nellore district of Andhra Pradesh.
