Clamour to ban PFI grows louder amid nationwide NIA, ED raids

The National Investigation Agency (NIA), the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and local police on Thursday launched multiple raids across 13 states - including Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Uttar Pradesh, and Assam - to crackdown on suspected terror-funding activities.
NIA claims that PFI has links several left-wing extremists and Dalit organisations that campaign on issues of police atrocities, fake encounters, alleged imprisonment of innocent people as under-trials by falsely implicating them in terror cases, and campaigning against the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA).
“All these activities are enough to ban the PFI,” said an officer who didn’t want to be named.
Under investigation in multiple cases for role in violent protests in Delhi and Uttar Pradesh against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), alleged forced conversions, radicalisation of Muslim youth, money laundering and maintaining links with banned groups, PFI is not new to the ban controversy.