New Delhi: India is on high alert after the threat posed by ISIS, Home Minister Rajnath Singh said on Tuesday, a day after his ministry warned of a possible attack in the country by the terror group.
“ISIS is not a threat for any particular country, but for the entire world. India is alert about ISIS,” Rajnath told reporters in New Delhi.
Indian security officials suggest that around 20-odd Indians are presently fighting for ISIS in Iraq-Syria.
Few among them are two youths from Kalyan in the outskirts of Mumbai, an Australia-based Kashmiri, a man from Telangana, one from Karnataka, one Oman-based Indian and a Singapore-based Indian.
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“Though the ISIS has not been able to establish any significant presence in India, its success in radicalizing some youth, attracting certain sections of the local population or the Indian diaspora to physically participate in its activities or the possibility of piggy-backing on terrorist groups operating in India have opened up the possibility of ISIS-sponsored terrorist action on Indian territory,” an advisory issued by the home ministry on Monday said.
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“With the available inputs about ISIS activities should be immediately reviewed to identify plans, targets areas vulnerable to attack by ISIS and appropriate action is taken to neutralise potential threat if any,” the advisory said. The government has also decided to review security at the embassies and other offices belonging to the governments of France, US, UK, Germany, Russia, Australia, Turkey and Israel.
