GUWAHATI:
The arrested president of Assam unit Campus Front of India (CFI), Amir Hamza, was brought to Guwahati on November 13.
Amir Hamza (27) was arrested by a team of the Special Operation Unit (SoU) of Assam Police from Bellundur in Bangalore on November 12.
He is the son of Ayjuddin Ali and a resident of DTBM Nabajagaran High School, Bhakuamari, Ananda Bazar under Salbari police station in Lower Assam’s Baksa district.
Hamza was charged with SOU PS case No 02/2022 under sections 120B/124A/153A/353 of IPC and read with section 18 of UA(P) Act, 1967.
Hamza was absconding after the PFI ban and hiding in Bengaluru with some families from Tripura.
A team of SoU led by a DSP traced and caught him with the help of Bengaluru police.
A search operation was conducted in Hamza’s residence in Baksa district and various incriminating documents and posters were recovered, the Assam police said in an official statement.
The seized items include posters against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, the BJP, the RSS and the ABVP, and in support of hijab.
Letterheads of PFI and CFI, and several bank passbooks were also recovered from his house, the police statement added.
At least 42 PFI activists have been arrested from different parts of the state so far.
The police have already sealed the PFI Assam’s head office in Hatigaon area of Guwahati as well as its local offices in Karimganj and Baksa, following the ban on the outfit by the central government.
He has been given three days of transit remand by the Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate of Bengaluru.
He will be produced before the court of the chief judicial magistrate of Kamrup Metro in Guwahati on Monday.
“CFI is linked with the Popular Front of India (PFI), and is being termed as a ‘student wing’ of the radical Islamic organisation. PFI itself has roots in the banned terrorist organisation SIMI or the Students Islamic Movement of India and has its stronghold in Kerala. PFI has also been charge-sheeted in the Delhi riots case,” said a senior police official.