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UP STF raids Delhi offices of PFI, its student wing
The Uttar Pradesh police s Special Task Force Sunday raided the Delhi offices of Popular Front of India and its student wing CFI, officials said, days after a CFI leader was sent to five-day police custody for allegedly funding PFI members to create unrest after the Hathras gangrape incident.
On February 17, a court in Mathura had sent PFI s student wing leader Rauf Shareef to five-day police custody.
Uttar Pradesh STF Inspector General Amitabh Yash told reporters, A probe by the STF is underway in a case registered in Mant police station of Mathura. Based on information retrieved during interrogation, search and seizure are being done in the offices of PFI and CFI located in Delhi, after obtaining search warrant from court.
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Agra: Campus Front of India (CFI) leader Rauf Shareef, an accused of funding and stirring unrest in the wake of the gang-rape and murder of the 19-year-old Hathras girl, was remanded to judicial custody for a day on Sunday.
Remanding magistrate Swati Singh, a judicial magistrate in Chhata, remanded Shareef to judicial custody till Monday. He would be produced before additional district and sessions judge (first) Anil Kumar Pandey on Tuesday, said his counsel Madhuban Datt Chaturvedi.
Shareef lodged in a Kerala jail was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in December last year in a money laundering case. A production warrant against him was earlier issued by a Mathura court at the request of UP’s Special Task Force (STF).
The Campus Front of India leader is being brought to Uttar Pradesh by plane after a court issued a production warrant in connection with the Hathras rape case.