New Delhi. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has made sensational revelations regarding the banned Popular Front of India (PFI) . The ED investigated the network associated with PFI for four years.

The dossier prepared after the investigation revealed that PFI has hundreds of members and offices in Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Delhi, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Bihar, West Bengal, Assam, Jammu and Kashmir, and Manipur.

According to the ED dossier, this organization was banned after the failed attempt to assassinate Prime Minister Narendra Modi in July 2022. The organization was banned under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.

13,000 members were associated with the organization

Investigation has revealed that the members of the organization were active in five Gulf countries including Singapore. This organization has at least 13,000 members. Investigation has also revealed that many unknown donors have given financial help to the organization.

At the same time, money has been given to the organization through hawala. The organization had opened 29 bank accounts of trusts and affiliated institutions for depositing cash.

In the last few years, various agencies have arrested 26 top officials in connection with the activities of this organization.

PFI was involved in these violent cases

During the investigation, a terror camp in Kerala was also unearthed. The ED claimed that the organisation was involved in the Delhi riots, unrest in Hathras and an attempt to kill PM Modi during his rally in Patna in July 2022.

ED also claimed that the organization used to provide training in explosives and weapons to youth under the guise of physical education. ED revealed in the dossier that this organization was active in Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and UAE.

PFI's goal was to spread jihad in the country 

Investigation has revealed that the real objectives of PFI are different from the objectives stated in its constitution. The real objectives of PFI include forming an organisation to carry out an Islamic movement in India through jihad.'

The ED said that PFI presents itself as a social movement. PFI claimed to use non-violent methods of protest, but evidence shows that the methods of protest used by them are of violent nature.