‘PEOPLE WITH TIES TO PFI WERE VISITING VP ANSARI’S RESIDENCE’

Intelligence agencies, in 2009, had forwarded specific inputs to the Ministry of Home Affairs about people with close ties to the Kerala based People’s Front of India (PFI) and its political arm, the Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI), which came into existence the same year, regularly visiting 6 Maulana Azad Road, New Delhi, the official residence of the Vice President of India.

Since the matter related to a VVIP, the inputs that landed at the desk of officers manning the Internal Security (IS) division of the MHA were forwarded to the police modernisation division of the MHA, official sources who were a part of the IS division at the time and went through the intelligence inputs told The Sunday Guardian.

“The inputs were very much in physical form with all the details as is required of intelligence agencies while submitting their inputs. These were forwarded to another division for further action. However, whether any action was taken on these or if these were treated as normal routine inputs and forgotten is something that can be elaborated upon by the officials concerned. These inputs are still a part of the files that are there in the concerned division of the MHA,” an official source said.

The Sunday Guardian sent multiple emails on this to the office of Hamid Ansari, who was the Vice President of India from 2007 to 2017. Despite waiting for two weeks for a reply, this newspaper did not hear from his office. This newspaper also called the phone number listed on