UP Police will seek custody of PFI student wing leader Rauf Shareef: Officer

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The Uttar Pradesh Police mentioned on Sunday that it might seek custody of Popular Front of India’s student wing leader Rauf Shareef, arrested in Kerala by the Enforcement Directorate, in reference to a case of funding and stirring up protests after the assault and demise of a younger girl in Hathras.

“Rauf Shareef is wanted in the Hathras case and a team will be sent to bring him here after the ED (Enforcement Directorate) completes its work,” UP’s Additional Director General of Police (Law and Order) Prashant Kumar informed PTI.

Shareef, the final secretary of PFI student wing Campus Front of India, was arrested by the ED at Trivandrum airport on Saturday in a cash laundering case.

The Uttar Pradesh Police claimed that the 4 folks arrested on their method to Hathras in October have been performing on the behest of Shareef. The UP Police had on November 18 issued a lookout discover in opposition to Shareef.

Kerala journalist Siddique Kappan and three others have been arrested in Mathura once they have been on their method to Hathras after the assault and demise of the 19-year-old Dalit girl.

The demise of the lady and her cremation by the authorities within the lifeless of the night time with out her household’s consent triggered a nationwide outrage.

The PFI had been accused of funding protests in opposition to the Citizenship Amendment Act throughout the nation earlier this yr.

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