The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has conducted raids at 16 different locations in coastal Karnataka simultaneously. The raids were conducted to track down hawala transactions allegedly made by some local suspects from Gulf nations for terrorist and anti-national activities. The NIA crackdown was to break the hawala network of banned organisation, Popular Front of India (PFI), and investigation trail of the Phulwari Sharif terror module case which came to light in Patna, Bihar has reached the coastal Karnataka region. Earlier, NIA had arrested Mohammad Sinon, a Bantwal resident, Sarfaraz Nawaz and Iqbal from Sajipa Mooda, Abdul Rafeeq from Puttur in this connection.
Popular Front of India, also known as PFI, is a banned Islamic fundamentalist organisation, allegedly involved in terror activities, organised crime and intimidation tactics.
Mohammad Sinon, a Bantwal resident, was arrested by the NIA in connection with the hawala transactions of some local suspects for terrorist activities through PFI.
