NIA arrests former PFI Kerala state secretary CA Rauf in Palakkad

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrested CA Rauf, former Kerala secretary of the banned Popular Front of India (PFI).

Rauf was arrested in the wee hours of Friday, 28 October, from his house in Karimpully, Pattambi in Palakkad district.

Both the Kerala police and NIA had been on the lookout for Rauf even before the ban on PFI.

Rauf is alleged by the investigating agency in conspiring to establish an Islamic republic in India through violent means.