New Delhi: Even as intelligence agencies, on the basis of interrogation of Syed Ismail Afaque Lanka, have learnt that Popular Front of India (PFI) had a role in 2011 Mumbai bombings, 2012 Pune blasts and 2013 Hyderabad Dilsukhnagar attack, the organization denied having any connections with Lanka or the terrorist attacks.
Afaque had told interrogators that he had sent PFI members to buy explosives – ammonium nitrate, gelatin sticks, non-electrical detonators, capacitors etc, which was used to assemble bombs for these blasts. Afaque, who was arrested in January this year has even told the investigators that he was President of PFI’s Bhatkal (Uttara Kanara) district in Karnataka.
PFI’s public relation officer Mohammed Arif Ahmed said, “…the allegations levelled against Popular Front of India linking it with the above said bombings and terror activities are complete false, baseless and defamatory’.
He claimed, “PFI is a neo-social movement committed for empowering people for ensuring justice, freedom and security”.
