NIA raids PFI man's house in Katihar dist

PATNA: A team of National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday conducted raids at the residence of a person allegedly linked to the banned Popular Front of India (PFI) in Katihar district in connection with its probe into the Phulwarisharif terror module case lodged in July last year, informed sources said.
Katihar was among the 25 locations in the country where the NIA sleuths conducted raids on Wednesday.
Sources said the agency raided the house of an alleged PFI operative under Hasanganj police station area and searched his premises for hours.
It was not officially known if the agency seized any document. Reports said one Mohammad Jawaid was taken to the local police station for interrogation, but he was let off later. However, this information was not officially confirmed.
"The NIA team raided the house of Nazir Hussain, but we don't know the cause of the raid," a local resident, Sahwar Hussain, told a Hindi news channel. The local NIA office in Patna refused to share details.
Informed sources said the raid was conducted in connection with the Phulwarisharif terror module case, which came to fore in July last year.
The last year raids conducted in Phulwarisharif locality of Patna had led to seizure of documents about PFI's conspiracy to convert India into an Islamic state by 2047.
During the raid, the NIA team had also seized flags of the banned PFI and Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI), pamphlets and some incriminating documents which had led to arrest of three persons, including a retired police sub-inspector, who were accused of training the Islamic extremism in the name of teaching them martial arts.
This is the second NIA raid in Bihar in the past one month.
Last month, the NIA had carried out searches at multiple locations against the PFI cadres in places like East Champaran, Katihar, Madhubani, Siwan, Muzaffarpur and Darbhanga.