ED raids houses, offices of former PFI leaders in Kerala
The raids were held to identify the financial transactions made by the former PFI members and to get the details of terror funding.
The raids were held to identify the financial transactions made by the former PFI members and to get the details of terror funding.
This is the fifth chargesheet filed by the NIA in connection with the matter this month.
The confiscated assets, belonging to the violent PFI leaders and workers, would be handed over to the Land Revenue Department to compensate for the loss of public properties damaged during the statewide hartal call that turned violent on 23 September last.
The High Court slammed the State Government since it missed the deadline to confiscate the assets of the PFI leaders, who destroyed public properties, worth crores of rupees, as they gave the day-long Statewide shutdown call in September last year.
Official sources said the simultaneous raids began on Wednesday night at 56 places spread across Ernakulam, Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam, Pathanamthitta, Palakkad, Alappuzha, Kozhikode, Kannur and Malappuram districts.
The largest-ever crackdown that was conducted against the Popular Front of India (PFI) members spread across 15 states was code-named "Operation Octopus", sources said on Saturday.
