New Delhi, March 5 -- The Enforcement Directorate has arrested Moideen Kutty K alias MK Faizy, the national president of the Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI), on the grounds that the party carries forward the ideology and agenda of the banned Popular Front of India (PFI) and is funded by it.
People familiar with the development said that Faizy, 55, a resident of Palakkad in Kerala, was arrested at Delhi airport around 9.30pm on Monday under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), days after the financial crimes probe agency raided Faizy's residence in Kerala on February 28.
PFI and its eight affiliate organisations were banned by the ministry of home affairs under the stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, or UAPA, ...