Indian Government: ISIS attracted youth children from India

Terrorist organisation ISIS has attracted ” youth” from India and both the central and state governments have launched various programmes for their deradicalisation, the government told Lok Sabha today.

“The international terrorist outfit, viz., Islamic State (IS), Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL), Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)/Daesh, uses both positive and negative imagery to attract recruits from across the world.”

The Islamic State (ISs) is known by different names and has set up a caliphate under Abu Bakr-al Baghdadi.

The existing legal provisions are effective instrumentalities to combat offences relating to terrorist financing and money laundering, he said.

“Various programmes are being undertaken by the central and state governments to deal with the issues of counter-radicalisation and de-radicalisation,” Ahir said.

In reply to another question, he said the National Investigation Agency and Maharashtra, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu Police have registered cases to probe the alleged links of Indian youth with ISIS and have arrested 54 persons so far.

Source: /India Times