UP police finds out money received in the name of social service was also used to finance anti-CAA agitation

Lucknow, February 06 (HS) A new revelation has been made by Uttar Pradesh police. It has been now disclosed that money received in the name of social services was also allegedly used to finance anti-CAA agitation. The Enforcement Directorate is tracking the money trail.

The police have also collected evidence of popular front of India, a radical Islamist organization, printing and distributing propaganda materials. The name of the printing press is not yet known but it is suspected to be somewhere close to Shaheen Bagh in Delhi where women and children are sitting in dharna since long.

From there anti-CAA leaflets and other such materials were dispatched to a different location in U.P. and other parts of the country.

The ED has already identified PFI bank accounts where money was transferred during the stir in December last in the state. The total was whopping Rs 120 crores. Further investigation is on.

Major violence during the stir had erupted in the western part of the state, particularly the Meerut zone. As many as 47 PFI members have been arrested in this zone alone. It is nearly 40 percent of the total arrest so far. This Kerala-based outfit is active in about 13 districts. It set its foot in the state in 2007.

Out of the total 47, 21 arrests have been made from Meerut, nine from Ghaziabad, six from Muzaffarnagar and ten from Shamli districts. It is suspected that 70-odd more PFI members are active in the area, stoking the fire.

Like Shaheen Bagh, protesters are sitting in a dharna in Lucknow and some other parts of the state. Cases of violation of prohibitory orders have been filed against some of them. Some other actions may be also taken against them.

HS / RN