ED establishes link between UP violence and PFI
Lucknow, January 27 (HS) A shocking disclosure was made on Monday.It was revealed that as much as Rs 120 crores were transferred to accounts in the areas where large-scale violence had taken place in Uttar Pradesh last month leading to death of more than 20 people in connection with anti-CAA stir.
As the money was sent from accounts directly or indirectly linked to Kerala-based Popular Front of India, a militant Islamic organization a link between the two cannot be denied. It strengthens the state government plea to the Home Ministry to ban the organization.
The disclosure has been made in a note prepared by the Enforcement Directorate which is inquiring into cases against the organization under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act.
Western UP had witnessed the maximum violence and the agency has found that most of the money was transferred to districts like Bijnor, Hapur, Bahraich and Shamli which form part of the region.
The police had arrested the president of the organization Wasim Ahmad and 18 other members of the organization in conection with the violence. Most of them have been released on bail. Several lakhs of rupees were also transferred to some lawyers. In all, money was deposited in 73 account.
Some amounts were routed through some foreign accounts and deposited in investment firms. The Kashmir unit of the PFI received over Rs 1.5 crores, according to the ED note. Amounts were immediately withdrawn from all the accounts.
On the other hand Samajwadi Party President Akhilesh Yadav and former finance minister Yashwant Sinha have spoken against the CAA.To them, the Act is against the unity of the country. Sinha has improved a march for peace in the country which will end in Delhi on 30 January.
