The sources said a total amount of Rs 120 crore, credited to bank accounts linked to the PFI, are under the ED’s scanner
Current Affairs:The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has discovered that the ongoing rough fights in Uttar Pradesh and different pieces of the nation against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) had an affirmed “money related connection” with the Kerala-based Popular Front of India (PFI), a case named as “unjustifiable” by the association.
Official sources said on Monday that the government test office, which is exploring the PFI under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) since 2018, has discovered that at any rate Rs 1.04 crore were saved in a few financial balances connected to the association between December 4 a year ago and January 6 this year in different pieces of the nation.
This was when Parliament passed the law to allow citizenship to non-Muslims who were mistreated on strict grounds in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan.
The sources said an aggregate sum of Rs 120 crore, attributed to ledgers connected to the PFI, are under the ED’s scanner.
“The Popular Front of India has expressed it on numerous occasions that we completely conform to the tradition that must be adhered to and the charge of Rs 120 crore moved from the Popular Front’s records just before the CAA fights is absolutely ridiculous and the individuals who are leveling these charges ought to demonstrate these cases,” the association said in an announcement.
The sources guaranteed that these questionable stores were either made in real money or through the prompt installment administration (IMPS) and various such occurrences were seen in Uttar Pradesh, where the greatest number of brutal enemy of CAA fights were accounted for to have occurred.
Citing the ED discoveries, the sources stated, the withdrawal of cash from the financial balances connected to PFI and its related elements had an “immediate relationship” with the vicious exhibits against the CAA.
Aditi Mehta 