The ED note had also named some senior lawyers including Kapil Sibal and Dushyant Dave as recipients of the funds. This dossier had also alleged that PFI received significant funding through multiple front organisations in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and Oman. In a rebuttal issued soon after the ED note emerged on Monday, PFI general secretary Mohammed Ali Jinnah rejected the ED’s effort to link the group to the protests as “totally baseless”. The PFI statement said another allegation leveled at them relates to transfer of funds to Popular Front’s Kashmir Wing. “We challenge the so called “Unnamed Sources” to prove that there is any wing of Popular Front working in Kashmir.

Source: Hindustan Times January 27, 2020 11:48 UTC