Meanwhile, the National Investigation Agency NIA and other agencies are carrying out rounds of raids in locations associated with the Popular Front of India PFI. The raids are being carried out in eight different states, while many of them have been detained. The NIA has received a lot of important information from the searches.
Combined forces from Delhi Police Special Cell and teams of the Delhi Police Special Cell conducted raids in Delhi's Shaheen Bagh and Jamia. Around 30 people have been arrested in these raids, and four people have been arrested from North-east Delhi.
The Maharashtra police detained six PFI supporters in Pune for questioning on the alleged funding. The raids were conducted in coordination with ATS and NIA.
As many as 60 PFI members were taken into preventive custody in Karnataka. The NIA will seek judicial custody. The arrests were made under the Preventive Action Report PAR because these members had stopped NIA personnel or protested against the raids.
Around 21 PFI members from Madhya Pradesh and 10 from Lucknow were arrested for questioning, while 21 from eight districts of Assam were arrested by the NIA.
The Maharashtra ATS told a court that it wanted to find out the identities of five of the accused arrested during raids on the PFI with organisations including Al Qaeda and the Islamic State, and also to investigate the electronic evidence. The ATS recovered some literature and a book titled '' Who Killed Karkare' from one of the accused and seized his laptop and phone.