Sedition charges slapped against PFI agents
The UP Special Task Force has slapped sedition charges against the 2 arrested Popular Front of India agents.
Meanwhile, the STF has succeeded in getting a 5-day remand for Rauf Sharif, another PFI agent, brought to Mathura from Kerala on a transit remand by the STF. A Mathura court has allowed 5day remand to STF on its plea for 10 days. PFI agents Asad Badruddin and Feroz Khan, arrested on Tuesday with explosives, detonators and weapons, were handed over to ATS on Wednesday for further probe. ATS produced them before the NIA Court and sought a 7-day remand. ATS plans to probe both with Rauf Sharif after STF getting his 5-day remand to unearth plans and piece together missing links in terror money laundering case.
Former US President Donald Trump attacked Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, days af ter seven Republican senators joined all 50 Democrats in voting to convict him of inciting the deadly Januar y 6 Capitol riot.
"Mitch is a dour, sullen, and unsmiling political hack, and if Republican Senators are going to stay with him, they will not win again," Trump said in a statement released through his Save America super PAC on Tuesday, blaming McConnell for Republican Party's 2020 Senate losses, Xinhua news agency reported.
"He will never do what needs to be done, or what is right for our Country. Where necessary and appropriate, I will back primar y rivals who espouse Making America Great Again and our policy of America First. We want brilliant, strong, thoughtful, and compassionate leadership," said