Did PFI plan to blow up Ayodhya’s Ram Mandir and build Babri Masjid? Details inside-

New Delhi, Oct 20: In a major revelation, the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) confirmed that the now-banned Islamist organization Popular Front of India (PFI) had come up with horrifying plan. The PFI had planned to blow up Ayodhya’s Ram Mandir and build Babri Masjid at the same location, the official said.

 

 

It is pertinent to mention that they also had planned to make India an Islamic country by 2047, the year in which India would complete 100 years of its Independence.

 

 

Notably, on October 18, the arrested five PFI leaders from Maharashtra’s Malegaon, Pune, and other regions who were produced in the Nashik Court on October 18. They include Malegaon district PFI president Maulana Saeed Ahmed Ansari, Pune vice president Abdul Qayyum Sheikhand and three from other parts of the state.

 

They were detained on the suspicion of conspiring to spread communal unrest and providing money to the terrorists. According to the police, the PFI had aimed to make India a Muslim nation by the year 2047 and had set a target to blow up Ayodhya’s Ram Mandir and had planned to build Babri Masjid there instead.

 

 

The Police also said they were part of a WhatsApp group that is administered from Pakistan. The group, consisting of around 175 members from India, Pakistan, the United Arab Emirates, and Afghanistan, reportedly discussed conspiracy to carry out destructive activities in the country. They also had planned to execute severe riots and social unrest in the country.

 

The investigating officials examined computer, mobile, hard disk, and bank transactions belonging to the arrested PFI jihadis, produced in the Nashik Court on Tuesday. This is days after the state officials arrested around 35 PFI jihadis from across Maharashtra. The action came as part of the nationwide crackdown on PFI.