The UP Police has busted the claim of dubious journalist Siddique Kappan in his bail application that he doesn’t have any connection with the Islamist outfit Popular Front of India with proof. It is a vindication of Indus Scrolls reports which had exposed Kappan’s close links with the Islamist outfit.
To prove Kappan’s strong ties with the notorious Islamist group, the police have submitted before the High Court the minutes of the Popular Front executive committee meeting held in Chennai on February 14-15, 2015 which showed that Kappan used to be an active as a member of the group.
The Popular Front minutes read: “It is decided to organise a seminar on ‘Minority rights’ by the end of March 2015 in New Delhi coordinating with other organizations. Try to constitute a minority forum through this. The team to conduct the seminar will include Arif Ahmed, Parwez Ahmed, Muhammad Shafi and Siddique Kappan. EM Abdurahiman the PR in-charge will lead the team.”
Akanksha Kumar of the propaganda website Newslaundry, which is under scanner for dubious funding, had produced a nine-part series claiming that Kappan doesn’t have any links with Popualar Front. The News Minute has also been facing similar allegations. The lies peddled by Newslaundry’s Akanksha Kumar is repeated by the Left-Liberal ecosystem to build a narrative. In a column, senior journalist Sevanti Ninan cut and pasted the Newslaundry lie, saying that Kappan had filed a defamation case against the Managing Director of Indus Scrolls G Sreedathan. “All these people have been claiming that Kappan had filed a defamation case against me. I challenge Akanksha or Sevanti, for that matter, to give me a copy of it, as I am yet to see one. This is a Goebbelsian trick.” According to Sreedathan, Akanksha Kumar had misquoted him despite his repeated warnings. (Indus Scrolls had reproduced the WhatsApp chats between Sreedathan and Akanksha.)
After Newslaundry’s reports, Sreedathan received death threats from Popular Front goons through social media, for supporting the UP Police in its investigation. A Malayala Manorma journalist who had helped the UP Police in the investigation in the case has been given police protection after Islamists issued death threats.
According to UP Police, Kappan’s arrest had led to unravelling of terror network in South India. Kappan had been in regular touch with fugitive ‘most wanted’ Islamic terrorists.
Discussion about this post