The NIA on Friday arrested a cadre of proscribed organisation Standard Font of India (PFI) who had allegedly harboured an individual accused within the notorious Kerala professor palm chopping case, an official stated. The company alleged that C Shafeer had supplied shelter to accused Savad after he absconded within the wake of the assault on retired Professor T J Joseph in Muvattupuzha in July 2010.
“NIA investigations have revealed that Shafeer was himself purportedly concerned in a number of violent acts for PFI,” an company Spokesperson stated in a press release. Savad was caught from Kannur in January this yr by the company after being on the lam for 13 years, the spokesperson stated.
“Successful staff member of PFI, he was cost sheeted in January 2021 within the case, which was one of many earliest such incidents in India reflecting the ideology of violent extremism being pursued by the organisation,” it stated. Nineteen individuals have up to now been convicted for numerous offences underneath the IPC and UA(P) Act within the case, which was filed after a professor’s palm was chopped off for the alleged ridiculing of Prophet Mohammed in a Malayalam query paper ready for the interior examination of BCom college students at Newman School, Thodupuzha, Idukki district, Kerala.
