The NIA informed the special court in Ernakulam that the banned PFI, through its arms training wing, prepared instructors to impart uniform physical and weapons training to its cadres at various stages under a common syllabus and structured course.
Moidheenkutty (52), absconding for four years, was arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) at Nedumbassery International Airport in Kochi on Wednesday.
The primary objective of the operation was to trace six key PFI activists who have been absconding since cases were registered against them following the nationwide ban on the organisation.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) is set to carry out further investigation into the brutal hand-chopping of college professor T J Joseph in 2010.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has provisionally attached eight immovable properties worth approximately Rs 67.03 crore that are beneficially owned and controlled by the banned Popular Front of India (PFI) and its political front, the Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI), in various places in Kerala.
The properties were held in the name of various trusts and that of its political front, the Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI).
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Saturday arrested a Popular Front of India (PFI) cadre, Mohammad Sajjad Alam, at the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport on his arrival from Dubai, the agency said on Sunday.
The total attachment in this case to date stands at Rs 61.72 crore while the ED had initiated a probe against the office bearers, members, and cadres of the PFI based on the FIRs filed by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and other Law Enforcement Agencies.
The apex court declined to interfere and cancel their bail term in view of the gravity of the offence (conspiracy to commit terrorist acts across the country) and the fact that only 1.5 years had been spent in incarceration.
Police conduct a controversial raid on the home of rights defender Abdul Wahid Shaikh amid PFI case scrutiny.
