A special court in Kochi, Kerala, has dismissed the bail plea of an accused in a case probed by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) relating to alleged anti-national activities of the banned Popular Front of India (PFI).
The judge of the special court for the NIA cases, P.K. Mohandas, on April 29 dismissed the bail petition filed by Shahul Hameed of Kottanadu in Palakkad, the 50th accused in the 2022 case linked to the alleged anti-national activities of the PFI, including the murder of RSS activist Sreenivasan.
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Mr. Hameed was arrested by the NIA’s Kochi unit on November 11, 2025.
The counsel for the accused submitted that the allegation against Mr. Hameed was that he harboured another accused and that no serious overt act had been attributed to him, warranting prolonged incarceration.
