Palakkad : At end of a long run, State Secretary to banned Popular Front party, CA Rouf, has been nabbed by National Investigation Agency(NIA) sleuths who made their arrest from his home in Palakkad’s Karimbulli late last night.
In the operation, the arrest team positioned themselves outside, surrounding the house completly, before letting themselves in, and taking him into custody. Rouf went into hiding soon after Popular Front was banned - first to Karnataka, then Tamil Nadu.
NIA early on found how Rouf helped with hideout for several leaders win the wake of the ban, In their raid of Rouf’s house last week, officials came upon incriminating pamphlets, said NIA.
NIA had heated up its hunt for Rouf amid which came the last night arrest. Rouf is being transported to NIA office in Kochi.
