Centre directs States to exercise powers of UAPA against PFI; Twitter Accounts Of PFI, Its Leaders Taken Down
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29 September, 2022 11:10 am IST
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After declaring the Popular Front of India (PFI) and its associates and affiliates as an unlawful association, the Centre has directed the States and Union Territories to exercise powers of Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 against them.
In a notification issued on Wednesday, the Central Government declared PFI and its associates and affiliates as an unlawful association with immediate effect, for a period of five years.
In the notification, Union Home Ministry said, the PFI and its associates and affiliates including Rehab India Foundation, Campus Front of India, All India Imams Council, National Confederation of Human Rights Organization, National Women’s Front, Junior Front, Empower India Foundation and Rehab Foundation, Kerala have been involved in the violent terrorist activities with an intent to create a reign of terror in the country.
It mentioned that there has been a number of instances of international linkages of PFI with Global Terrorist Groups and some activists of the PFI have joined the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and participated in terror activities in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.
In the meantime, the Twitter account of Popular Front of India (PFI), the Islamic group banned by the government, and several of its leaders have been withheld in India by the social media platform. Its Facebook page and Instagram profile are no longer available either.
The organisation's account, @PFIofficial, had around 81,000 followers. Twitter has withheld the handles of its chairperson, OMA Salam (@oma_salam), who had just under 50,000 followers, and general secretary, Anis Ahmed (@AnisPFI), who had nearly 85,000 followers.
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