Enforcement Directorate (ED) has sent a report to the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) stating that Kerala-based organisation Popular Front of India (PFI) is allegedly funding anti- Citizenship (Amendment) Act and anti- National Register of Citizens (NRC) across the country, reportsIndian Express on January 28. According to a section of the report titled ‘Summary of evidences proving that PFI has mobilised cash for organising demonstration against CAA’, “The scrutiny of deposits and withdrawals from bank accounts of PFI and its related entities has revealed there is a direct correlation between dates of deposit/withdrawal of money from the bank accounts and dates of demonstration/gherao against CAA in different parts of the country.” In the report, ED also alleged that Congress leader Kapil Sibal, senior lawyers Indira Jaising and Dushyant Dave received payments from PFI. In another part of the report titled ‘Analysis of Bank Accounts of PFI’, ED alleged that the organisation PFI received Rs 120.5 crore, which were withdrawn either the same day or within two or three days. This part of the report, which does not mention the time period in which this money was received, alleges that scrutiny of a PFI account with Syndicate Bank’s branch on Moovar Road in Kozhikode, Kerala, revealed that payments of Rs 3.77 crore were made to various individuals and persons. This, ED states, includes paments to Sibal (Rs 77 lakh), Jaising (Rs 4 lakh), Dave (Rs 11 lakh), PFI Kashmir (Rs 1.65 crore), New Jyothi Group (1.17 crore), and one Abdul Samad (Rs 3.10 lakh), an accused chargesheeted by NIA. PFI has denied the charges of funding anti-CAA protests. Notably, the ED has been probing PFI since 2018 with regard to a case of money laundering. Recently, after receiving a report on PFI’s alleged involvement in CAA protests by the Uttar Pradesh (UP) Police, MHA had asked ED probe its finances.