Banned PFI carried hit lists together with former Kerala district choose: NIA

The nationwide company’s disclosure was revealed in an order of a particular NIA courtroom in Kochi on June 11, rejecting the petitions for bail by two accused within the case of the homicide of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Srinivasan in April 2022. The homicide, allegedly carried out by PFI employees, was one of many crimes that led to the nationwide ban by the Union authorities on the extremist outfit in 2022.

The NIA prosecutor instructed the particular courtroom in Kochi that the PFI had three wings — ‘Reporters Wing’, ‘Physical and Arms Training Wing’ and ‘Service Wing/Hit groups’. The ‘India 2047’ agenda of the PFI was to eradicate those who go in opposition to the pursuits of the outfit, he mentioned.

“Therefore, PFI by their secret ‘Reporters wing’ collected and maintained the private particulars of the folks of different neighborhood, together with their place, title, age, picture and so on. The identical is established by the seizure of varied hit lists ready by PFI cadres by their secret wing referred to as ‘Reporters wing’,” the order mentioned.

The ‘Reporters wing’, it mentioned, collected private and personal info of distinguished personalities in society apart from leaders of different communities like Hindus together with their day-to-day actions.

“The knowledge is compiled on the PFI district degree and communicated to their state hierarchy. The particulars are frequently up to date and utilised to ‘goal’ the people as and when required by the terrorist gang. The PFI had skilled its cadres for assortment of such knowledge and had saved them apart from offering the identical to their assault groups in ‘Service wing’ as when determined by their management,” the order mentioned.

The NIA instructed the courtroom that paperwork containing the hit record of about 240 individuals have been seized from Sirajudheen, a member of the ‘Reporters wing’ of PFI and accused quantity 51 within the Srinivasan homicide case.

The company said that the title of a former district choose in Kerala was on a success record of 5 focused individuals seized from Abdul Wahab, one other accused within the homicide case.

The NIA instructed the courtroom that it has seized paperwork containing hit lists of 232 individuals from Muhammed Sadik, an accused-turned-approver within the case, and one other hit record of 500 individuals from an absconding accused named Ayoob TA.

The company said that in homicide instances involving PFI cadres, together with that of RSS chief Srinivasan in Palakkad, the accused didn’t have any private enmity with the deceased. “The victims have been chosen solely due to their management/membership to a specific neighborhood and have been killed to create terror in society,” it mentioned.