Madhya Pradesh ATS produced four leaders of the banned organization Popular Front of India (PFI) arrested from Indore and Ujjain in NIA Court Bhopal on Friday and the court sent the four accused to judicial custody for 14 days.
As soon as they entered the court premises, the state president of PFI showed the victory sign and was stopped by security personnel.
On the night of September 22 on the input of NIA, ATS had arrested four members of PFI from Ujjain and Bhopal. Electronic devices, anti-national documents were recovered from them. The NIA court had handed him over to the ATS September 30.
The ATS had claimed that the motive of the accused was to create fanaticism in the country by instigating the youth of a particular community. They were involved in the campaign as part of the agenda of establishing Islamic Sharia law in India.
The arrested who were produced in the court were Abdul Karim Bakeriwala,State President, Indore, Abdul Khalid General Secretary, Indore, Mohammad Javed State Treasurer, Indore and Jameel Sheikh State Secretary Ujjain.
Earlier when the four accused were produced in the court on September 23, then advocate Athar Ali, appearing for the accused, had raised concern over security of the four and Judge Raghuveer Prasad Patel told he should not be worried.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) and ED had raided several locations of PFI.
A total of 106 members of PFI have been arrested from 15 states. Organization chief Oma Salam is also included in these. This action was taken by the investigating agencies in Uttar Pradesh, Kerala, Karnataka, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Assam, Maharashtra, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Puducherry, Rajasthan.