This is an archive article published on December 30, 2022
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Kerala lawyer held for training PFI hit squad: NIA
Mubarak, a practising lawyer at the Kerala High Court, is the 14th PFI activist to be arrested from Kerala in connection with the raids held in September.
He was produced before the NIA special court in Kochi, which remanded him in judicial custody for 14 days. The investigating agency will move the court seeking his custody for further interrogation.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday arrested an advocate from Kerala a day after conducting searches at 56 locations connected to activists and leaders of the banned outfit — Popular Front of India — across the state.
The NIA, in an official release, said the advocate, Mohammed Mubarak, a resident of Edavanakkad in Ernakulam district, is a member as well as a trainer of the PFI’s martial art and hit squad. It said the squad was engaged in “training and raising gangs to target leaders of other communities”.
Mubarak, a practising lawyer at the Kerala High Court, is the 14th PFI activist to be arrested from Kerala in connection with the raids held in September.
He was produced before the NIA special court in Kochi, which remanded him in judicial custody for 14 days. The investigating agency will move the court seeking his custody for further interrogation.
According to the NIA, an assortment of weapons, including axes and swords concealed in a badminton racket bag, was recovered from Mubarak’s house during the raid. He is an active member of the PFI and had recently started imparting training in martial arts, said the agency.
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Earlier, the NIA had told the court that the PFI had prepared a list of leaders of other communities whom they aimed to target.
He was produced before the NIA special court in Kochi, which remanded him in judicial custody for 14 days. The investigating agency will move the court seeking his custody for further interrogation.
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