The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Sunday carried out searches at seven places in Kashmir in reference to a case associated to makes an attempt by terror group ISIS to recruit youth in India. Police mentioned it detained some individuals for questioning.
The company claimed that ISIS is posting content material on-line to “radicalize influential youth by presenting a contrasting story of imagined injustice in India”.
The company had registered a case on this matter on June 29 and carried out a search operation in collaboration with Jammu and Kashmir Police on Sunday.
Police officers mentioned the central company raided a couple of locations at Achabal in Anantnag and detained at the least 5 youths for questioning. The officers additionally searched a spiritual seminary in Srinagar other than a couple of locations in Awantipora and Baramulla.
“In order to carry out its nefarious plan, an organized operation has been launched on cyber space, supplemented by terror financing activities at the ground level,” the NIA mentioned in a press release on Sunday.
According to the NIA, ISIS terrorists working from numerous battle zones together with their cadres in India have created a community through which propaganda materials associated to ISIS is circulated to radicalize and recruit members to the fear outfit. All this, the NIA has claimed, has been accomplished utilizing pseudo-identities.
“In this regard, an India-focused on-line promotional journal, ‘Voice of Hind’ (VOH), is printed on a month-to-month foundation, with the purpose of empowering youth to awaken a spirit to a contrasting narrative of imagined injustice in India. There is to incite and radicalise, segregation and communal hatred,” the company assertion mentioned.
The NIA claimed that in its searches, numerous incriminating paperwork and digital units like cellphones, tablets, laptops, onerous disks and T-shirts have been discovered with ISIS printed on them.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
