meerut a team of up antiterrorism squad ats with the assistance of local police arrested six popular front of india pfi memebers four from meerut and two from varanasi on saturday objectionable literature pen drive three mobile phones and books have been recovered from them police saidfour pfi members mohd shadab azim qasmi mufti mohd shahjad maulana sajid and mohd islam qasami were arrested from kharkhauda area of meerut while rizwan ahmed and mohd shahid were arrested from an underconstruction overbridge at kazzakpura railway crossing in varanasi for their alleged involvement in illegal activities they were conspiring to make the country an islamic nation by 2047 the police statement claimedduring the crackdown meerut police said that a team led by ats noida inspector anuj kumar and ats meerut unit incharge inspector rajiv tyagi nabbed four membersin meerut a case has been registered against them under ipc sections 120b criminal conspiracy 153a promoting disharmony and hatred 295a deliberate or malicious act to outrage religious feelings 505 circulating statements to spread rumour and section 13 1 of unlawful activities prevention act at kharkhauda police stationshadab and sajid belong to shamli district whereas shahzad belongs to a village in ghaziabad and mohd islam is a resident of muzaffarnagar districtpolice said that a case had already been registered against shadab at a police station in shamli five cases against sajid in shamli six against shahjad at three different police stations in meerut and ghaziabad and one registered against qasami in muzaffarnagar in 2019