The National Investigation Agency (NIA), on March 17, filed two separate chargesheets against a total of 68 Popular Front of India (PFI) cadres, leaders and operatives in two separate cases in Kochi in Kerala and Chennai in Tamil Nadu, reports NIA. The chargesheets filed, relate to separate criminal conspiracies hatched by PFI to create a wedge between people of different communities through radicalisation of Muslim youth, providing them with training in handling of weapons and raising funds for carrying out acts of terror and violence with the ultimate objective of establishing an Islamic Rule in India by 2047. Kerala PFI case was registered by the NIA in September 2022. The chargesheet also included the connected case of the killing of a Palakkad resident, Sreenivasan, who was hacked to death by PFI cadres. As part of the investigation, NIA attached over 17 properties associated with PFI identified as proceeds of terrorism and froze 18 bank accounts. Some of the prominent PFI leaders included in the chargesheet are ‘state general secretary’ Abdul Sathar, ‘state executive member’ Yahiya Koya Thangal, Ernakulam ‘zonal secretary’ Shihas M H, other District level ‘leaders’- Sainudheen T S, Sadik A P, C T Sulaiman and Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) state general secretary P K Usman in Kerala as well as Khalid Mohammad, vice president’ of PFI in Tamil Nadu.