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KANNUR, April 24, 201321 PFI activists held at arms training camp
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The police display weapons and bomb-making materials seized from a building of the Popular Front of India and the Social Democratic Party of India at Narath in Kannur on Tuesday.— PHOTO: S.K. MOHAN
The district police here raided an alleged weapons training centre run by the Popular Front of India (PFI) and took into custody 21 PFI activists allegedly undergoing arms training in a building at Narath here on Tuesday.
The police also seized two country-made bombs and a sword from the premises. The police team headed by the Dy.SP P. Sukumaran and ASP Yadhish Chandra raided a raw laterite structure inside a coconut garden under the Mayyil police station limits here following a tip-off that arms training was going on inside the building.
The police said that as soon as the police personnel including members of the Quick Response Team landed in the area, two activists standing guard outside the building fled. The police locked the doors of the building from outside to prevent the remaining activists from fleeing.
When contacted Mr. Sukumaran said that the police had initiated a detailed probe. He said that all the 21 arrested were activists of Popular Front of India and the Social Democratic Party of India. Some of them were functionaries of the two outfits, he added.
One of those held by the police allegedly included a person involved in a murder case. The police said the antecedents of those held were being examined. All of them were being questioned at the Valapattanam police station here. Apart from the bombs and the sword, the police also seized some quantity of gunpowder, iron nails and jute yarn bundles which are apparently used for making country-made bombs. The police said that a wooden frame for making human effigy to be used as target during weapons training was also seized. The police also found 21 mobile phones kept in a two-wheeler parked nearby. The police also found an Iranian identity card from the premises. The police said that the 10-cent plot where the building is located is owned by the outfit.
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