On March 18, National Investigation Agency (NIA) filed a chargesheet against 19 leaders of the Popular Front of India (PFI) in a case related to a criminal conspiracy aimed at destabilising the country, reports Greater Kashmir. "The investigation has exposed a trail of funding by the PFI to its terror operatives and weapons trainers across the country, both in cash and through regular bank transfers, in the guise of payment of salaries. All these PFI trainers have been arrested in cases registered either by the NIA or by different state Police forces," the NIA chargesheet reads. The NIA also said that PFI had devised a well-planned strategy to wage "an armed struggle against the Government of India (GOI) by radicalising and recruiting Muslim youth who had already pledged their allegiance to the PFI and its ideology and tactics through administration of the oath of secrecy and loyalty”. It added further, "these highly radicalised men were being trained in the use of arms and weapons in various 'Arms Training Camps' being conducted by PFI across the country with the intention of raising a well-trained 'PFI Army'.”