The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested a Popular Front of India (PFI) member, who was the key conspirator in the 2016 Karnataka case relating to the murder of RSS leader R Rudresh and was absconding.
The NIA team nabbed Ghouse Nayazi at the Mumbai International Airport on his arrival from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The team was waiting for him at the airport after receiving credible inputs about the absconding accused.
Rudresh, a prominent RSS leader of Shivajinagar, Bengaluru, was hacked to death by four members of the now banned PFI, on October 16, 2016. The NIA investigation into the case (RC-04/2016/NIA/HYD) had revealed that the murder was part of a larger conspiracy hatched by Ghouse, President of SDPI Hebbal Assembly Constituency, and one Asim Sheriff.
The duo had motivated the other four accused to kill Rudresh with an intention to strike terror among the members of RSS and the society. The killers were persuaded to believe that the fight against the RSS was a ‘holy war’.
With Ghouse’s arrest, all the accused in the case have been arrested. The trial against the remaining accused is being conducted at NIA Special Court in Bengaluru.
The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) banned the PFI and its eight affiliates — Rehab India Foundation (RIF), Campus Front of India (CFI), All India Imams Council (AIIC), National Confederation of Human Rights Organisation (NCHRO), National Women’s Front, Junior Front, Empower India Foundation and Rehab Foundation, Kerala —on September 27, 2022. The ban came after the NIA and Enforcement Directorate cracked down on the senior leaders and members of the PFI, in which at least 108 people were arrested.
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