UP: ED to seek court's nod to quiz arrested youths with PFI links

LUCKNOW: The Enforcement Directorate is all set to move a Mathura court next week for permission to question the four youths, linked to the Popular Front of India, arrested by Mathura police for conspiracy to trigger violent agitation on Hathras incident.
Those arrested include Atiq-ur-Rahman from Muzaffarnagar, Siddiqui from Malappuram in Kerala, Masood Ahmad from Bahraich and Alam from Rampur. They were arrested in Mathura while on way to Hathras on October 5. The four were booked under the charges of sedition, raising funds for the purpose of committing a terrorist act under Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) and spreading enmity between religions.
The ED sources said that they had received all the documents from the Mathura police of the accused, including the arrest memo and the objects that were found to be in possession of them at the time of arrest.
On the basis of the documents received by the police and preliminary investigations done, the agency will approach the court for permission to question the four who are at present in judicial custody.
An ED official privy to the probe said that the FIR registered by Mathura police against the four is also under Section 153 A which happens to be a scheduled offence under Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002 and all money collected by committing such a crime is liable to be confiscated by the agency. "We will question the four and then take a final call on registering a case," said a senior ED official.
ED also said that all the technical resources and assistance was being utilised to trace the details of the website- ‘Justice for Hathras’.
Sources in the ED also claimed data traffic analysis from Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) for tracing first IP resolution and Internet Protocol Detail Record (IPDR) analysis of Suspects to check if they all tried to access the site before it became public to check collaborations and coordination is underway.