KOCHI: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) probing the case in which the palm of Thodupuzha Newman College professor T J Joseph was chopped off, has collected evidence of forign extremists funding.NIA has issued an alert in all airports in the country to track the four main accused in the case.
The Kerala state police had conducted a detailed probe into the case and filed chargesheets against 27 accused. The investigation was taken over by the NIA after it was strongly suspected that the incident had terrorist involvement and that foreign extremist agencies had funded the attack  read more »

Kochi, June 13 - The National Investigation Agency, probing the case relating to the chopping off the hand of a college lecturer in Kerala July last year has arrested one more accused in the case.Naushad, arrested from nearby Aluva yesterday, was produced before CBI Special Judge S Vijay Kumar today and remanded to five days NIA custody.This is the first arrest after the NIA began probing the case. Naushad has been accused of aiding the main accused in the crime.NIA, which has already filed chargesheet in the case, had taken over the investigation from local police which had listed 54 accused in the case of which 27 were chargesheeted and 27 others are absconding

08 Apr 2011. Kochi: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has submitted the first information report (FIR) in the lecturer attack case. The NIA report has named 54 people as accused. The NIA took over the case on March 9 from the Moovatupuzha(KERALA) police which registered the case. Earlier too, 54 persons were named as accused.T J Joseph of Newman college in Thodupuzha was attacked on July 4 when he was returning with his family members near his home in Muvattupuzha.  read more »

Thiruvananthapuram: The management of Newman College today filed a counter affidavit in the University
Appellete Tribunal here against lecturer T J Joseph plea for staying his dismissal in the wake of the question paper row, which led to a brutal attack by militant activists of Popular Front of India.  read more »

Aluva: Police informed the Kerala High Court that it suspects illegal money transactions going on at the jewellery shop owned by an accused in the lecturer attack case. Police said this while the court was considering the plea by the jewellery owners to allow them to open the shop and function. Police investigation is progressing on money transactions and the purpose for which it was done. In its report, police also stated that the money and jewelleries were removed from the closed shop. The probe is being conducted by the Aluva rural police. Earlier, during a raid in Ayoob's house, police seized many documents, CDs and a gun.
Government to probe functioning religious courts

Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Government today announced a probe into the activities of religious committees run by radical
outfit, PFI, whose activists chopped off the hand of a college lecturer recently.

Appropriate legal action would be taken if the Popular Front of India's committees were found to be violating the law, Home Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan told the assembly.

Balakrishnan said it had come to government's notice that certain committees headed by religious authorities by the name 'Dar-ul Khada' were functioning to resolve civil disputes of Muslim community but no complaint had been received that they were passing 'Taliban model orders'.  read more »

New Delhi-24th July2010
Radical Islamic outfit Popular Front of India (PFI) is aiming to convert Kerala into a Muslim majority state in the next 20 years, Kerala Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan said here Saturday.
“For achieving that goal, the outfit is pumping money to attract youth and give them weapons. They also try to convert youth from other communities and persuade them to marry Muslim girls,”(love jihads) Achuthanandan informed reporters here.  read more »