Four PFI activists held, says Assam Police

The Assam Police said on Friday that they arrested four activists of the Popular Front of India (PFI), which was banned by the central government last month.

Special director-general of police (law & order) GP Singh told the media that the police would continue to take action against jihadi activities and the PFI in the state.

These PFI leaders were arrested from different places of Nagerbera. They are identified as Nojrul Islam from Gogolmari, Rafikul Islam from Tupamari, Moninoor Islam from Khemeri and Hafijur Rahman from Polahorhati.


Assam's police had recently arrested 36 PFI activists, excluding these four. State minister of information and public relations Pijush Hazarika recently said that the PFI had orchestrated violence during the anti-Citizenship Amendment Act agitation.

Assam had witnessed violent protests in 2019 and early 2020 after Parliament passed the Act. Five people had been killed during the protests.

"PFI is a threat to the country, they were engaged in violent activities during the CAA protest," Hazarika said, adding: "They were fanning religious sentiments to disestablish the state and had a plan of merging Assam with Bangladesh." Several offices of the PFI have been sealed in the state since it was banned last month.