LUCKNOW: A team of UP Police will go to Kerala to seek remand of Rauf Sharif, general secretary of Campus Front of India, a student wing of the Popular Front of India (PFI), who was detained at Trivandrum airport while trying to escape to Muscat on Saturday.
Sharif, accused of providing financial support to incite communal disharmony in Uttar Pradesh after alleged ganga rape and murder in Hathras, was detained by ED while trying to flee to Muscat as a look out circular was issued against him on November 18. ADG, law and order, Prashant Kumar said, “Four PFI members, Atiq-ur-Rahman, Siddiqui, Masud Ahmad and Alam, were arrested from Mathura on October 5. During questioning, the four revealed that Sharif, general secretary of Campus Front of India, a student wing of PFI, had provided financial assistance and resources to incite riots in the state.”
On the basis of their revelation, UP Police got a look out circular issued against Sharif. “During probe, it also surfaced that Sharif received crores of rupees from abroad and used it to incite social disharmony and communal riots,” said police officials privy to the probe. “A UP Police team will be sent to Kerala to seek remand of Sharif and probe his role and links in funding for creating disharmony after Hathras murder case,” said Kumar.
ED is also probing role of PFI in triggering violent agitation after Hathras case. Sources in the ED said Sharif was booked under Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002, and added that he illegally received money in his account from Oman and Qatar. The money is suspected to be used for subversive activities. Sharif also did not appear before ED even though several summons were sent to him.