2 PFI members apprehended by UP STF, had ‘plans to attack top leaders of Hindu outfits’

New Delhi: Busting a major terror plot, Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (STF) on Tuesday arrested 2 members of Popular Front of India (PFI) along with explosive devices.

Identified as Badruddin and Feroz, the duo had plans to trigger bomb blasts at noted locations of the state. As per the police statement, the PFI operatives also had plans to attack top leaders of Hindu outfits in the state.

Uttar Pradesh Additional director general of police, Law & Order Prashant Kumar said that the arrested members were planning to execute blast at sensitive locations in the state.

“Explosives, detonators, weapons and incriminating documents have been seized from them,” Prashant Kumar, UP ADG, Law & Order.

They were planning an attack at important places in the State and target those holding important positions in Hindu organisations: Prashant Kumar, UP ADG, Law & Order pic.twitter.com/0SgGWcpw3F

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“They did a recce of important places. They wanted to target top Hindu leaders,” the STF said. The two were arrested at 8.30 pm on Tuesday after the police received information that few people from PFI are conspiring to make a terror group to disturb peace in a bid to ‘start a fight against India’.

According to the initial interrogation, the two arrested members said that they wanted to spread their ideology and train ‘people from a particular religion to spread their ideology’ across the state.