The agency revealed the 'hit lists' while opposing the bail pleas of four accused — Palakkad natives Muhammad Bilal, Riyasudheen, Ansar K P, and Saheer K V — in a case involving anti-national activities.
Published Jun 25, 2025 | 1:56 PM ⚊ Updated Jun 25, 2025 | 3:21 PM
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Synopsis: The NIA found the ‘hit lists’, which included a former district judge, in separate raids.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has exposed ‘hit lists’ of the banned Popular Front of India (PFI).
In a submission made to the NIA court in Kochi on Wednesday, 25 June, the premier anti-terrorism agency said it had recovered multiple hit lists having the names of more than 950 individuals in Kerala.
The agency revealed the ‘hit lists’ while opposing the bail pleas of four accused — Palakkad natives Muhammad Bilal, Riyasudheen, Ansar K P, and Saheer K V — in a case involving anti-national activities.
The NIA said eight documents seized from the 51st accused, Sirajudheen, included a list of 240 people from other communities.
Another search on the Periyar Valley Campus in Aluva, which the agency claims functioned as an arms training centre for PFI, yielded a hit list of five individuals, including a former district judge, from the wallet of absconding accused Abdul Wahad.
Further, a document recovered from an accused-turned-approver contained the names of 232 people, while a raid at the residence of the 69th accused, Ayoob TA, led to the seizure of a list with nearly 500 names.
The agency also linked the murder of RSS leader SK Sreenivasan in Palakkad to PFI’s alleged larger conspiracy to establish Islamic rule in India by 2047 — a plan outlined in a six-page document recovered in a separate NIA case in Bihar.
Sreenivasan was fatally attacked by a six-member gang at Melamuri in Palakkad on 16 April 2022. The attack was carried out less than 24 hours after a PFI leader, Subair, was murdered.
After examining the evidence and hearing both sides, the court ruled there were reasonable grounds to believe the accusations and denied bail to the four accused.
The Ministry of Home Affairs had banned PFI in September 2022 after it was “found to be involved in serious offences, including terrorism and its financing, targeted gruesome killings, disregarding the constitutional set up of the country, disturbing public order, etc., which are prejudicial to the integrity, security and sovereignty of the country”.
