Yet another terrorist outfit in the making?

Mysore, July 18:-

    Popular Front of India (PFI) might claim itself to be a socio-cultural movement, but the roadmap to its ideological/political objectives seems anti-national and communal.

Police, investigating the July 2 communal riots in Udaygiri that claimed three lives, have confiscated a computer with 80 GB hard disk, some CDs, printed literature and pamphlets that contain highly inflammatory readings, which can stoke violence of large scale. The Mysore Police Commissioner, Mr Sunil Agarwal, revealed to TNN here on Saturday that the hard disk and the CDs recovered from the PFI district office in Ashoka Road of Mandi Mohalla were being sent to Resource Center for Cyber Forensics for decoding the credible information it might contain on organization’s activities, links and motives.

“It has highly objectionable literature that goes against societal integrity, but can’t specify the content as it would hamper the investigation process. Our special investigation team formed exclusively for this case is working on it”, he said.

However, TNN has accessed to the some of the printed literature, which was translated from Urdu to Kannada by the police. The literature clearly exposes the PFI’s anti-national and communal stand.

Some of the objectionable objectives in the 35-point pamphlets kept for distribution in PFI district office, includes: Islamic India by 2020, religious conversions, suicide bombers to kill RSS leaders, stoking Gujarat-like communal clashes and assault on Hindu women. 

Mr Sunil Agarwal also said that the police have rejected the PFI’s plea to flag-off ‘Freedom Parade’ on August 15. “PFI has made a formal request in May and was rejected as it was not appropriate. And, many members of PFI and Karnataka Forum for Dignity (KFD) are facing charges in connection with various communal flare-ups under Mandi and Lashkar police station limits, so the organization ‘Freedom Parade’ can’t be accepted,” he explained.

Reacting to the reports of PFI approaching the court to seek permission for ‘Freedom Parade’, Mr Agarwal said that the police would defend its stand and explain the reasons for rejection. “The police would do what ever it takes to maintain law and order,” he observed.