NEW DELHI: Nationwide Investigation Company (NIA) on Friday arrested the foremost assailant behind the killing of RSS leader Sreenivasan in Palakkad, Kerala, in April 2022.
Shamnad E Ok alias Shamnad Illikkal, a resident of Manjeri in Kerala’s Malappuram district, was on the run since the murder. NIA had even declared a reward of Rs 7 lakh for his arrest. He was lastly nabbed from Ernakulam by the NIA’s ‘absconder monitoring group’.
NIA in a press launch stated Shamnad had been below the safety of the banned In style Entrance of India (PFI) and was residing below a hid identification since the ugly killing of Sreenivasan.
NIA probe revealed that the murder conspiracy was hatched by PFI leaders and cadres with the intention to create communal divide. The outfit was engaged in radicalising weak Muslim youth to advertise its violent agenda of establishing Islamic Rule in India by 2047. The recruits have been skilled in dealing with weapons by PFI, which was additionally actively elevating funds for finishing up acts of terror and violence in the nation, NIA stated.
PFI was declared an ‘illegal affiliation’ and its total management arrested in nationwide raids throughout its places of work in September 2022.
NIA stated PFI was executing its nefarious designs by means of a number of wings and models, equivalent to ‘reporters wing’, ‘bodily and arms coaching wing’ and ‘service groups’ and imparting arms coaching to chose cadres at its services in the guise of bodily training, yoga coaching, and so forth.
NIA has up to now chargesheeted 63 accused as half of its ongoing investigations in the case.
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