The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has attached the property of a now-banned Islamist organisation Popular Front of India (PFI) member involved in the 2016 murder of a Hindu Front leader in Coimbatore.
The property of accused Subair has been attached on orders of the NIA Special Court, Poonamallee, Chennai.
Subair, along with other co-accused, all members of the Islamist outfit PFI, were involved in the gruesome killing of C Sasikumar, Spokesperson, Hindu Front, Coimbatore. Sasikumar was brutally hacked with lethal weapons while he was returning home from his party office on his two-wheeler on September 22, 2016.
Saddam Hussain, Subair, Mubarak, and Rafiqul Hassan, had attacked the victim in front of Chakra Vinayaka Temple, under Thudiyalur Police Station limit, Coimbatore. Sasikumar sustained grievous injuries and later succumbed to the same.
The anti-terror agency took up the case from Coimbatore police and re-registered it. The NIA said it found that the conspiracy was hatched by accused PFI members with the aim of creating terror among a particular community and without any provocation or enmity.
“NIA, which has already chargesheeted all five accused in the case, found during the investigation that Subair had, in 2020, transferred his property, purchased in 2012, to his mother via a gift settlement deed. Since the transfer took place after the commission of the crime and post filing of the chargesheet, it was seen by the NIA as an attempt to thwart legal action against Subair,” the anti-terror agency said.
