Picture used for representational purpose. The
dreaded terror group Islamic State of Syria and Iraq (ISIS) and all its
affiliate organisations will be banned by India under the Unlawful
Activities
(Prevention) Act soon.
A notification declaring ISIS and its affiliates ISIL and IS
as proscribed organisations will be issued very soon, official sources said
today.
Home Minister Rajnath Singh had said in Parliament on
December 16, 2014 that the Middle-East group had been declared banned in India
under a United Nations Schedule. He had said the group has been proscribed
under the provisions related to organizations listed in the Schedule to the UN
Prevention and Suppression of Terrorism (Implementation of Security Council
Resolutions) Order, 2007 made under section two of the United Nations (Security
Council) Act, 1947.
Four youngsters from Mumbai had gone to Iraq-Syria in May
2014 to join ISIS. One of them returned late last year while the whereabouts of
the remaining three are yet to be known.
A Bangalore-based executive of a multinational company was
arrested in December last year for allegedly running a pro-ISIS twitter handle.
Last month, another person from Hyderabad was barred from traveling to Syria,
ostensibly to join ISIS.
Recently, retired Intelligence Bureau chief Asif Ibrahim had
said there was an imminent danger of Indian youths moving to the conflict zone
(Iraq-Syria), emerging as a role model, and such developments may directly or
indirectly pose a threat to the country.
"The threat potential is accentuated with some lower
rung elements returning from conflict zone," he had said.
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