Latest reports alleged that Siddique Kappan gave his Popular Front of India (PFI) hit squad a hit list of 25 Hindu leaders. The conspiracy to target these leaders was hatched at the Popular Front Camp held at Manjeri Green Valley Academy in Malappuram, Kerala, in September 2020.
National Investigation Agency (NIA) recovered a diary containing crucial information from Kappan’s co-accused, Anshad Badruddin, in the Hathras, Uttar Pradesh riot conspiracy case.
The meeting of PFI hit squad leaders was held at Manjeri Green Valley Academy after the Delhi riots fizzled out. This was where Kappan presented a hit list of 25 Hindu organisation leaders in North Bharat.
Kappan and his PFI colleagues suffered a significant backlash after the Delhi riots. Kappan allegedly suggested in a secret meeting that the blood of 23 Muslims who were killed in the anti-Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) protest in UP should be avenged.
HinduPost reported how Hindu leaders Kapil Mishra and Parvesh Verma led the Jat and Gujjar armed groups from Haryana to chase away the rioting Delhi Muslims. The Jat Gujjar squads managed what the Delhi Police could not, and the violence subsided. Enraged, Kappan allegedly called on his fellow terror conspirators to kill BJP leaders Kapil Mishra and Parvesh Verma, who led the Hindu counterattack in the North Delhi riots.
PFI North India Commander K P Kamal arranged the Green Valley Academy meeting. The NIA called Green Valley Academy PFI’s “largest arms and martial training” site in Kerala. This terrorist hiding place spanned 10 hectares in Manjeri, Malappuram and was attached by the NIA in July 2023.
The hit list was revealed when the diary and pen drive of Badruddin were confiscated following his arrest by the UP Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS). Badruddin, a native of Pandalam, Pathanamthitta district of Kerala, was arrested by the UP anti-terrorist squad in Lucknow in February 2021. Kappan shared a room in Delhi with Badruddin, a martial arts master, and Firoz Khan, a skilled bomb maker.
Badruddin admitted that the details of those who were included in the hit list who were supposed to be killed were presented by Kappan in the meeting convened by Kamal. Badruddin and Khan, who were arrested together, revealed these details during the interrogation.
A list of locations where bomb blasts were to be carried out in UP and information on local PFI leaders was recovered from the diary and pen drive. These alleged terrorist attack plans were the brainchild of PFI ‘Think Tank’ Kappan. Allegedly, had Badruddin and Khan not been caught by UPATS, massive terrorist attacks and riots have taken place in North Bharat.
Rauf Sharif, a resident of Anchal, an urban town located in the Kollam district in Kerala, was conducting hawala transactions under the guise of shell companies in Qatar. He is a licenced chartered accountant and the national secretary of PFI’s Campus Front student organisation. Sharif was responsible for arranging and delivering the necessary funds to PFI terrorists.
The ED was investigating a terror-linked money-laundering network. Sharif dodged the inquiry when it was discovered that enormous sums of money were being transferred from dubious foreign accounts to his bank accounts. The ED submitted in court that Sharif set up the cash for Kappan and the other conspirators to travel to Hathras.
As per the ED remand report, it was Sharif who had sponsored Delhi-based Kerala ‘journalist’ Kappan’s and three others’ trip to Hathras following the death of a Dalit girl as a conspiracy to instigate caste violence following the unfortunate incident.
Kappan focused all of his reporting on stirring up Muslims. As a prominent PFI member, Kappan took part in the demonstrations against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) that ultimately resulted in the rioting in Northeast Delhi in February 2020.
In Hathras, an SC (Scheduled Caste) Valmiki girl allegedly in a relationship with a GC (General Category) Thakur boy was strangled to death, and later rape charges were levelled at the boy and his relatives.
Sharif attempted to flee Bharat, but the Enforcement Directorate (ED) detained him at the Thiruvananthapuram International Airport in December 2020. A UPATF team later took him to Mathura, where he was remanded to judicial custody.
Badruddin and Khan reached Bangladesh via Kolkata. They were caught near Lucknow with a collection of explosives and guns obtained from an Islamic terrorist organisation in Bangladesh. Electronic detonators, batteries and Pentaerythritol Tetranitrate (also known as pentyl) were also seized from them. Pentyl is a potent explosive material.
The relevant part of Badruddin’s confessional statement reads: “I was given the charge of the North Indian states because I knew Hindi. Firoz and I have trained PFI hit squad members at various locations in North India.”
“Training was given to selected youth ready to do anything for PFI. They were taught to use weapons like knives, swords and guns. Cadre were trained to kill a person with an iron rod. Also, there is training in producing and using petrol bombs. Firoz Khan and I know how to assemble bombs using improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and explosives.”
“After the Babri Masjid verdict and CAA agitation, PFI became popular among Muslim youth, so it became easy to make them members. Taking advantage of this situation, PFI activity in North India was intensified.“
Delhi’s PFI in-charge, KP Kamal, assigned missions to hit squads. I know Siddique Kappan and Rauf Sherif. Delhi-based Siddique Kappan is a PFI think tank. Rauf Sharif is a fundraiser for PFI.”
This is the same Kappan who was garlanded by the Islamic media and some firebrand media organisations when he was released from jail in the Hathras conspiracy case. During interrogation, Kappan’s fellow conspirators confessed to the UP Police that Kappan was PFI’s ‘Think Tank.’ Kappan was arrested in October 2020 under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Amendment Act (UAPA) while on his way to Hathras but was released on bail in February 2023.
After his release, Kappan was welcomed by like-minded people in Kozhikode, Malappuram, and Wayanad. Crores of rupees flowed, and Kappan allegedly collected money to indulge in terrorist acts.
Kapil Sibal, the leading Lutyens’ attorney, represented Kappan. Sibal and his team are known to charge several lakhs for each court sitting. Who is sponsoring nefarious elements like Kappan and Kamal? Many view Kappan as a terrorist who infiltrated the divisive Kerala Union of Working Journalists (KUWJ) to work for his Middle Eastern paymasters.
