The Special Court of Delhi on Thursday took cognisance of the supplementary chargesheet (prosecution complaint) filed against Kasim Syed Mohd Ibrahim, Secretary of Tamil Nadu Development Foundation Trust (TNDFT) and M Mohammed Ismail, Managing Trustee, in a money laundering case related to the banned outfit Popular Front of India (PFI).
The Additional Sessions Judge Sachin Gupta on Thursday while taking cognisance of the Enforcement Directorate (ED)’s chargesheet issued summons to Tamil Nadu Foundation Trust and M Mohammed Ismail, Managing Trustee.
The Court also sought the production of Kasim Syed Mohd Ibrahim, Secretary of TNDFT, noted that he is in judicial custody presently. The Court fixed 21 December as the next date of hearing.
The prosecution complaint was filed by ED through Advocates Naveen Kumar Matta and Mohd Faizan in the matter. According to the ED, the investigation revealed that Tamil Nadu Development Foundation Trust (TNDFT), one of the frontal organisations of PFI which was founded in 1993 by the core committee members of PFI, runs Arivagam, an Islamic Conversion Centre that carries out Da’wah Orientation camps to convert people into Islam for men at Muthudevanpatty Village, Theni District and for female at Eruvadi town at Tamil Nadu’s Tirunelveli. Likewise, Puthiya Vidiyal is an Islamic magazine that was a mouthpiece of PFI.