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The huge public nuisance caused on September 23 and a speech by Afsal Qasimi six days before the strike played a significant role in turning other Muslim organisations against PFI.
The action came days after a countrywide crackdown on the 16-year-old PFI, arrest of over a hundred of its activities and seizure of several dozen properties.
KSRTC buses, which bore the brunt of the 12-hour statewide hartal, last Friday told the High Court at least 70 buses were destroyed in stone pelting from agitators.
Meanwhile, PFI has issued a statement claiming to be law-abiding organisation that made the Independence Day a popular event.
Sources said that more than 50 people have been detained and the arrests will depend on their questioning.
The cops are also examining whether any financial aid has been extended to the miscreants from any quarter for indulging in apparently organised violence.
MV Govindan's remarks come close on the heels of a nationwide crackdown on the PFI alleging terror links.
The total number of arrests recorded by the police in connection with the PFI hartal in Kerala has now gone up to 1,287.
The raids by Kerala police come on the back of charges that the PFI had conspired to incite violence in the state on Friday.
At least 819 others have been kept under preventive detention in connection with Friday's Popular Front of India hartal.