Express News Service
KOCHI: Campus Front of India (CFI) leader K A Rauf Sherif, arrested by Enforcement Directorate (ED) from Thiruvananthapuram on Saturday, funded the trip by Popular Front of India activists along with journalist Siddique Kappan to Hathras in Uttar Pradesh, where a shocking rape and murder had happened, with the intention to disturb social harmony and incite communal riots, according to investigators.
Rauf Sherif, a native of Anchal in Kollam, is the current national general secretary of Campus Front, the student’s wing of Popular Front of India. Malappuram native and journalist Kappan was held by the UP Police along with CFI national treasurer Ateequr Rahman and Masood Ahmed both students of Jamia Millia Islamia University and UP natives on their way to Hathras on October 4. They undertook the trip as per the directions of Rauf Sherif, said a report submitted by ED before the Principal Sessions Court, Kochi.