The PFI has joined a list of 39 organisations that have been banned in India. Invoking UAPA, the centre said the PFI and its affiliates were linked to the IS and propagating anti-national sentiments
The Supreme Court has refused the petition of a 68-year-old retired Govt engineer Mohammed Kaleem Ahmed, who was arrested among 17 other leaders and activists of the Social Democratic Party of India and Popular Front of India by the National Investigation Agency, in connection with the Bengaluru Riots.
The plea has been filed by PFI general secretary Anis Ahmed, through Advocate A. Selvin Raja, challenging the MHA notification. The plea states that the Ministry of Home Affairs carefully attempted to achieve the object of CAA, 2019 indirectly and implement the same by mere issuance of an executive order