Twelve terror suspects have been sent to the NIA custody till February 5 for further interrogation by a special NIA court.
The arrested ISIS sympathisers have made shocking revelations to the National Investi-gation Agency (NIA) officials about their plan to topple the Indian government and impose Sharia law across the nation. According to them, only Sharia law could impose stringent punishment for offenders as Indian police were unable to control crimes in the country. Their main objective is to spread terror across the country. The NIA along with state police officials had earlier arrested 14 ISIS sympathisers across the country. According to the agency these suspects were under surveillance for some time.
The ISIS has ambitious plans to spread its network through online medium. For achieving this objective, the terror outfit is hiring Indian hackers who can pass sensitive information about Indian government to them. They are actively using social media to lure youth towards terrorism. The terror group is willing to shell out as much as $60,000 for every government information which is passed on to them.
Kislay Choudhary, a cyber crime expert, said, “There are various underground communities online where hackers interact regularly. The handlers make lucrative offers for stealing government data. ISIS is making such offers to spread its reach in the country.”
Choudhary further added that stealing government data is part of Islamic State’s exercise to formulate their strategy against India. He said that ISIS has contacted over 30,000 young techies from India so far and some may have already grabbed the opportunity.
They have plans to obtain huge amount of weapons to carry out terror activities across the country. The sym-pathisers were communicating with the ISIS group through social media. The police too were keeping a watch on the online behaviour of these youth. After the arrest of Shaikh Mudabbir from Mumbra police have got vital information about the modus operandi adopted by the group to spread terror. Twelve terror suspects have been sent to the NIA custody till February 5 for further interrogation by a special NIA court.
The Home Ministry has decided to seek information and aid from Ameri-can, German, Australian and Israeli investigative agencies regarding the suspects. It is suspected that the terror network in India may be larger.
The terror group Janood-ul-Khalifa-e-Hind or the ‘Army of Caliph in India’ has emerged as a new threat. It is said to be a well-funded network of ISIS-inspired group and has recruits across the country.
