Guwahati: A leader of the students’ wing of the banned Popular Front of India (PFI), an Islamic organisation, had been arrested from Bengaluru.
This was informed by the Assam Police on Saturday.
The organization’s chief reportedly fled when the National Investigation Agency (NIA) launched a nationwide investigation into the group earlier this year.
An official said that the Campus Front of India (CFI) commander was taken into custody on Friday in Bellundur of Bengaluru, by an Assam Police team led by a DSP-rank official.
The accused was identified by police as Amir Hamza. They said that Hamza was concealing himself in Bengaluru alongside a few Tripuran families.
The Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate of Bengaluru granted Assam Police a three-day transit remand for Hamza following his arrest. He is being brought to Guwahati, a statement from police read.
The police statement further mentioned that he will be produced before the Chief Judicial Magistrate in Guwahati on Monday.
Disclosing more information regarding the arrest, officials informed that Hamza is a resident of Baksa district of Assam. He had been hiding since the Center imposed a ban on PFI.
Based on specific intelligence, he was traced and nabbed with help from Bengaluru Police, the statement further added.
It should be mentioned that since the government outlawed the group, at least 40 PFI leaders and members have been detained across Assam.
The police have sealed the offices of the prohibited organisation, including the one in the Hatigaon area of Guwahati and the ones in the state’s Karimganj and Baksa districts.