The National Investigation Agency told a Delhi court that the Popular Front of India (PFI) was the biggest danger to India’s unity and safety. This came during arguments on charges against PFI leaders in a case about plans to radicalise young Muslims and create hate against Hindus.
Special Public Prosecutor Rahul Tyagi said a protected witness told them PFI taught in classes that if India fights Pakistan, the army would focus north, so PFI could attack from the south and take over South India. These details come from The Indian Express report on the December 19, 2025 hearing at Patiala House Court before Judge Prashant Sharma.
Tyagi explained how PFI spread ideas that Islam is in danger in India to make young Muslims angry and ready for jihad. They used stories of Gujarat riots and Babri Masjid to talk about the good old days of Muslim rule under the Mughals and how things got worse after. Members had to pay monthly money called Baitulmaal, like in early Islamic times, and some went to Syria to learn how to fight from ISIS. ANI reported Tyagi’s words on X about hit squads targeting BJP and RSS leaders too.
In Bihar, police found a PFI module in Phulwarisharif, Patna in July 2022 with a document called India 2047: Towards Rule of Islam in India. It laid out steps to bring Islamic rule by 2047, India’s 100th year free, by uniting Muslims, giving arms training and using violence. Times of India covered this in stories like NIA arresting Bihar PFI chief Mahboob Alam in September 2025 linked to the case, now with 19 arrests. The NIA took over and found it was about disturbing peace and pushing anti-India acts.
The Ministry of Home Affairs banned PFI in September 2022 as unlawful for five years after over 1,300 cases nationwide. These include killings of Hindu group leaders, terror camps, youth radicalisation and ISIS ties. MHA noted finds like IED making guides, pro-IS videos on pen drives, weapons, ammo and papers on making India Islamic. India Today summarised the gazette notification listing PFI links to global terror groups like ISIS and JMB Bangladesh.
What does all this add up to? If the NIA’s version is correct, then PFI was not just an organization with extreme views, but a structured conspiracy that used religious propaganda to radicalise young Muslims, collected money through a religiously-framed contribution system, prepared weapons and training manuals, created hit lists of Hindu leaders and others seen as obstacles, maintained links with international terror groups like ISIS, and had a specific long-term plan—documented in writing and seized by investigators—to turn India into an Islamic state by 2047, with a military contingency that involved exploiting a future India-Pakistan war to launch an insurrection from southern India.
The courts will ultimately decide whether the evidence supports these allegations beyond reasonable doubt, but for now, the Indian state has formally put on record that it views PFI not as a civil rights group or a political outfit, but as a terror conspiracy with a timeline, a target year, and a willingness to use violence to achieve a vision that directly threatens India’s unity, integrity, and constitutional identity
