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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) is conducting raids at multiple locations in Bengaluru's Dakshina Kannada district..
Wednesday's NIA raids are in connection with a conspiracy by the banned outfit Popular Front of India (PFI) to kill Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his visit to Patna in July 2022...
NIA also detained four suspects from Puttur, Kurnadka, Taripadpu, and Kumbra villages..
The Enforcement Directorate (ED), last year in its remand note against PFI member Shafeeque Payeth, had said that the PFI had conspired to target PM Modi during his visit to Patna on July 12, 2022..
According to NIA sources, officials are conducting document verification at 16 places with the help of local police.. Houses, offices and hospitals linked to the activists of the banned Popular Front of India (PFI) were searched simultaneously in Mangaluru as well as Puttur, Beltangady, Uppinangady, Venur and Bantwal...
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