Popular Front of India (PFI) and National Democratic Front (NDF) were actively involved in 27 murders in the state, and the victims were mostly members of the CPM or the RSS, the state intelligence has told the Kerala high court.
“Police found that the reasons of these murders are communal rather than personal,” the state intelligence submitted before the court in response to a petition filed by PFI seeking permission to organise freedom parades in Eerattupetta, Ponnani, Koilandy and Kollam on August 15.
“Though NDF and PFI are claiming that their aim is to safeguard human rights, protection of minorities etc, their secret activities hinted that they were clandestinely engaged in wholetime criminal activities ,” C.S. Manilal, government pleader, submitted.
“PFI leaders have connections with Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), a banned organisation, and most of them were former office bearers of SIMI. The organisation pursued a virulently fundamentalist and communal agenda. PFI is a resurrection of SIMI in another form,” the state submitted.
It also said, “PFI was registered as Charitable Trust under the Societies Registration Act 1860, but the activities are of anti-national propaganda. Though the applications for conducting freedom parades seemed innocent, the security of the country will be affected.”
Organisations from various states such as the Association for Social Justice of Andhra Pradesh, Manitha Neethi Passrai Tamil Nadu and Dignity of Karnataka, shared a common platform and formed PFI on December 19, 2006, it said.
The state added, “The national chairman of PFI, Abdul Rehman, was the national secretary of SIMI while the state secretary of PFI, Abdul Hameed, was the former state secretary of SIMI. Likewise, PFI president E Aboobacker was the National working committee member of SIMI.”