The Uttar Pradesh police has put their social media labs on high alert after the ISIS video that threatens to avenge Babri demolition and killing of Muslims in Gujarat, Kashmir and Muzaffarnagar.
The Uttar Pradesh police has put their social media labs on high alert after the ISIS video that threatens to avenge Babri demolition and killing of Muslims in Gujarat, Kashmir and Muzaffarnagar.
UP DGP Javeed Ahmed told reporters: “We have put our social media labs on alert as well and will leave nothing to chance. We will keep a check on posts that are sympathetic to the ISIS ideology and also an eye on youth who could be lured by the ISIS propaganda.”
Apart from putting its social media monitoring labs on alert, the DGP said that the intelligence networks were also being sensitised in communally sensitive districts in the wake of the ISIS propaganda.
The 22-minute documentary, mostly in Arabic, shows jihadists, supposedly from India, who have joined ISIS ranks, threatening to “return” to “avenge killing of Muslims in India”.
The DGP said that the UP police was in touch with the Central intelligence agencies on the issue. “We are coordinating with our sister concerns at the national level while the resources available at the state level are keeping a close watch on any development which is beyond the usual,” he said.
The major cause of concern for the UP police comes from the recent arrest of at least two youths who were active on the ISIS social media network.
One of the youths, Shakir, was arrested by Delhi Police on May 4 from Deoband in Saharanpur for his alleged links with the terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammed, and Rizwan was picked up by the Mumbai police from Kushinagar district in Uttar Pradesh on January 23.
Rizwan, possibly one of the youngest jihadis, is believed to be second-in-command recruiter for ISIS in India after Mudabir Shaikh. Their arrests have proved that ISIS and its subsidiaries are trying desperately for a foothold on India in general and UP, in particular.
