Sleuths of National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrested 5 functionaries of Popular Front of India (PFI) in Madurai on Thursday, as a part of nationwide searches. The relations of the arrested individuals complained of excesses and “human-rights violation” in the course of the early morning operation.

The NIA officers who’ve been tenting in Madurai since Wednesday, swooped on the residences of seven functionaries of PFI in the course of the simultaneous searches carried out since 3.30 a.m. on Thursday.

Among the arrested are A. Mohammed Idris (35), PFI State orator, S. Mohammed Abudhagir (36), district president, M. Syed Ishak (35) district secretary, S. Kaja Maideen, state orator and A. Khalith Mohammed (47), State deputy president.

Though the groups had gone to the residences of A. Mohammed Yusuf and P. Mohammed Idris, they weren’t obtainable within the homes.

Later chatting with reporters, Socialist Democratic Party of India, basic secretary, Najma Begum, complained that an enormous police posse, led by the NIA sleuths, banged the doorways of the homes of the PFI functionaries within the lifeless of the evening.

“My children and ailing mother were terrified by the armed men barging into the house. Without divulging any details or showing any documents, they started to search the house. After taking a laptop and a mobile phone, they tried to force me to sign in some papers,” she alleged.

The police personnel refused to permit them to even fetch milk for the crying youngster, Ms. Begum charged. Another girl complained that the police had damaged open the door to enter the home in a fashion akin to makes an attempt to arrest terrorists.

The ladies stated they weren’t instructed concerning the expenses in opposition to the PFI functionaries. “Till this moment, we do not know where they have been taken to,” she stated including that Chief Minister, M.Okay. Stalin, ought to intervene in opposition to the “undemocratic act”.