ISIS to be banned in India

February 14, 2015 10:13
ISIS to be banned in India

The Middle-East terror group, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria [ISIS] is likely to be banned in India under the Unlawful Activities Act. The Union government will shortly issue declaring ISIS group and its affiliates ISIL and IS as proscribed organisations and the Ministry of Home Affairs is working on it. This decision to ban ISIS in India, is an extension to what Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh had said in the Winter sessions of Parliament last December. The United States has welcomed the Indian government's decision of ban.

The retired Intelligence Bureau chief Asif Ibrahim expressed his concern about Indian youth getting attracted to ISIS and are looking at various ways to make it to the middle-east. “ISIS is emerging as a role model and this could be a direct or indirect threat to the nation. The government has been in its shoes eversince the news broke about Indian youth getting fascinated by the terror outfit and has detained few of them, who tired to reach the middle-east.

The police have arrested one among the four youth who had gone to Iraq-Syria to join ISIS in May 2014 while the whereabouts the remaining three is yet to be known. Also, the police have detained a Bengaluru based IT employee who is alleged to be handling pro-ISIS twitter account and a Hyderabadi youth who is on his way to Syria.

- TVR

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