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Enforcement Directorate files charge sheet against Popular Front of India
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Last Updated: Feb 11, 2021, 09:40 PM IST
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Within the ambit of ongoing ED investigations against PFI and its related organisations, ED initiated investigation in this matter on the basis of FIR registered by UP Police in which scheduled offences under section 120-B of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and sections 17 & 18 of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act were invoked.
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Search operations, the agency has claimed, conducted at the offices of PFI led to the seizure of incriminating documentary evidence which revealed that PFI has been collecting huge amounts of funds abroad through PFI members/activists
ED Files 1st Chargesheet Against PFI; Claims it Wanted to Spread Terror After Hathras Rape Case
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The Enforcement Directorate has filed its first chargesheet against Popular Front of India and its students wing on money laundering charges, claiming its members wanted to incite communal riots and spread terror in the aftermath of the last year Hathras gang rape case. The central agency has been probing the Popular Front of India (PFI), formed in 2006 in Kerala and headquartered in Delhi, since 2018. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) recently started investigations into the Islamic organisations alleged role in funding anti-Citizenship (Amendment) Act protests and the communal riots which took place in Delhi last year. The prosecution complaint or chargesheet was filed before a special PMLA court in Lucknow on Wednesday under various sections of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).
India News: NEW DELHI: The foreign funding licences of more than 20,600 NGOs and associations have been cancelled from 2011 till date over violation of different .