<p>A Campus Front of India leader held from Kerala by the Enforcement Directorate on Saturday allegedly funded the trip of Delhi-based Malayali journalist Siddique Kappan and Popular Front of India activists to Hathras in UP.</p>.<p>According to the remand report submitted by ED before special court for PLMA cases in Kochi, K A Rauf Sherif, who is national general secretary of Campus Front, received Rs 2.51 crore in his bank accounts through various sources, including Rs 29 lakh as foreign remittance.</p>.<p>The ED report said that Siddique and three others carried out the trip to Hathras to meet the family of rape-murder victim as per the direction of Rauf, who sent money for this purpose to Atiq-ur-Rehman, who was a member in the delegation and a former treasures of CFI.</p>.<p>Rauf was held by ED from Thiruvananthapuram airport on Saturday while trying to board a flight to Muscat. A native of Anchal on the suburbs of Kollam district, he case under ED probe owing to the heavy cash transactions during the lockdown days.</p>.<p>The ED report also said that the cash remittances to the accounts were mentioned as payment for hotel stay and hence it was suspected that Rauf could be owning a hotel either in India or Oman. But ED was suspicions over this as most hotels remained defunct during the lockdown days and around Rs 30 lakh were received during April-May this year. Hence the remittance were suspected to proceeds of any crime.</p>.<p>Rauf made the bid to leave for Muscat even as he did not appear before ED for quizzing despite repeated summons.</p>.<p>ED was also learnt to probing whether Rauf was among those who funded the anti-CAA protest in Delhi.</p>.<p>Earlier there were allegations that Campus Front used to woo cadres from campuses in Kerala by offering cash and even two-wheelers. They even managed to make their presence felt in some of the prominent college campuses in the state. CFI activists were also accused in the murder of a SFI leader at the Maharajas College in Kochi in 2018.</p>
<p>A Campus Front of India leader held from Kerala by the Enforcement Directorate on Saturday allegedly funded the trip of Delhi-based Malayali journalist Siddique Kappan and Popular Front of India activists to Hathras in UP.</p>.<p>According to the remand report submitted by ED before special court for PLMA cases in Kochi, K A Rauf Sherif, who is national general secretary of Campus Front, received Rs 2.51 crore in his bank accounts through various sources, including Rs 29 lakh as foreign remittance.</p>.<p>The ED report said that Siddique and three others carried out the trip to Hathras to meet the family of rape-murder victim as per the direction of Rauf, who sent money for this purpose to Atiq-ur-Rehman, who was a member in the delegation and a former treasures of CFI.</p>.<p>Rauf was held by ED from Thiruvananthapuram airport on Saturday while trying to board a flight to Muscat. A native of Anchal on the suburbs of Kollam district, he case under ED probe owing to the heavy cash transactions during the lockdown days.</p>.<p>The ED report also said that the cash remittances to the accounts were mentioned as payment for hotel stay and hence it was suspected that Rauf could be owning a hotel either in India or Oman. But ED was suspicions over this as most hotels remained defunct during the lockdown days and around Rs 30 lakh were received during April-May this year. Hence the remittance were suspected to proceeds of any crime.</p>.<p>Rauf made the bid to leave for Muscat even as he did not appear before ED for quizzing despite repeated summons.</p>.<p>ED was also learnt to probing whether Rauf was among those who funded the anti-CAA protest in Delhi.</p>.<p>Earlier there were allegations that Campus Front used to woo cadres from campuses in Kerala by offering cash and even two-wheelers. They even managed to make their presence felt in some of the prominent college campuses in the state. CFI activists were also accused in the murder of a SFI leader at the Maharajas College in Kochi in 2018.</p>