Malappuram native Popular Front of India (PFI) Hit Squad Commander K P Kamal, who allegedly arranged funds and sent fake journalist Siddique Kappan to Hathras, was finally arrested on Friday. Kappan was detained by the UP Police on 5 October 2020, along with three other people, and charged with sedition and violating the strict provisions of the UAPA. Kamal had absconded immediately after Kappan was arrested.
Incidentally, it was the Uttar Pradesh police who located Kamal’s location in Malappuram and detained him. Like Kamal, several wanted terrorists allegedly live safely under green communist patronage. UP Police Chief revealed that the terror suspect was arrested by the UP Police Special Task Force (STF) from 75% Muslim Malappuram in Kerala.
On Friday, the UP STF arrested PFI leader Kamal from his house in Melattur, Malappuram. Kamal had a bounty of Rs.25,000 on his head and was wanted for hatching a conspiracy in the Hathras case of 2020. What was local Kerala police doing remains unknown.
Kamal is the main link to the Hathras riot conspiracy. Kappan is accused of plotting to instigate disturbances over the controversial Hathras case in Uttar Pradesh, where 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 leveled at the boy and his relatives. On Thursday, a special court in Hathras convicted one person and acquitted three others of all charges in the 2020 Hathras rape and murder case.
After Kappan’s arrest, UP police found Kamal’s audio recording of a secret meeting to unleash violence. Police found that Kappan had dialed Kamal’s number several times during the Hathras protests. A voice note using code words was used for arranging a secret meeting. The PFI terrorist was arrested based on these voice recordings found in Kappan’s mobile devices.
Kamal went into hiding soon after Siddique Kappan was caught. He was the commander of the PFI hit squads and a fund distributor. Kamal is also related to Anshad Badruddin, another PFI member from Lucknow.
Kamal organized a secret meeting in Kerala in September 2020 to devise plans to create communal riots in the country. PFI Hit squad coaches Badruddin and Firoz Khan participated in the Kerala rendezvous with Kappan and Kamal. Badruddin, a martial arts trainer, was Kappan’s Delhi roommate, and Firoz Khan, an expert bomb maker.
After Kappan’s detention, Badruddin and Khan were arrested from a train carrying explosives in early 2021. They were planning a series of blasts to target senior office-bearers of Hindu organizations. These terrorists worked under Kamal, arranging and participating in workshops with one agenda. Create communal disturbances and riots in Bharat. The aim of the Hathras trip, too, was the same.
Kamal’s interrogation will unravel the real Hathras conspiracy. He was the one who sent Kappan’s gang to Hathras. More information about Kappan’s role will come out with this.
On 9 September 2022, Kappan was granted bail by the Supreme Court because “Everyone has a right to free expression.” Many consider Kappan a terrorist working for his Saudi Arabian paymasters, who infiltrated the contentious Kerala Union of Working Journalists (KUWJ).
Though not associated with any significant media group, Kappan even held the post of secretary in the Delhi Unit of the KUWJ! The rot is so deep that it was not just local journalists from Bharat; even the BBC rejoiced in Kappan’s bail, even as their queen lay dead in her coffin.
Kamal’s arrest might unmask the truth behind several journalists like Newslaundry’s Akansha Kumar, Urban Naxals (a college professor even posed as a ‘bhabhi’ of the victim’s family and made provocative statements to media), and several media outlets. In early February, BBC reported that Kappan was granted bail and released from jail.
Incidentally, Kappan, too, originally hailed from Malappuram in Kerala and worked as a reporter for the controversial Malayalam news website, Azhimukham. Besides Kappan, radical Islamist outfit PFI members Masood Ahmed, Rauf Sharif, Badruddin, Atiqur Rahman, and Firoz Khan were also booked by the UP STF.
According to an STF officer, Kamal is the ninth arrest in connection with the case lodged under Indian Penal Code sections 153A (promoting enmity between groups), 295A (deliberate act to outrage religious feelings), 120B (criminal conspiracy), the IT Act and under provisions of the stringent anti-terror UAPA. Of these nine, two suspects, including Kappan, have been released from jail so far, even as investigation continues into the case over the role of the PFI in planning communal disharmony after the Hathras incident.
Kappan may be retaken into custody for questioning along with Kamal.
