Indian wants to leave ISIS, return

The family then shared the information to the security agencies.The youth who was earlier posted in the logistics department of the ISIS in Al Raqqah was later shifted to ISIS held areas in Iraq close to Syria. The man, whose identity has been kept under the wraps, is said to be in his late 20s.

Intelligence agencies got a whiff of his plan while trailing his Indian handler. “He is also frustrated with the activities of IS and desperately wants to come back”, said an intelligence officer.

He was recruited into the ISIS by an Indian in the UAE about six months ago after he was radicalised on the social media. “He made several calls to his home in the last few days from different numbers and expressed that he is stuck there”.

The point is: Should we encourage these people to return who joined terrorist organizations without any provocation and given their proclivities, is it not a matter of time before they funnel their frustrations to religion-based issues back home?

If agencies succeed in bringing him home, he will be put through a mandatory deradicalisation programme, apart from being interrogated at length to determine the level of his involvement with IS. In Lucknow, ADG (law and order) Daljit Singh Chowdhary said the state police is coordinating with intelligence agencies in Delhi. The Dubai-based IS operative had found the Azamgarh youth surfing about the the militant outfit.

He is considered to be the first person from Uttar Pradesh to join ISIS directly without having any contact with any terrorist organisation in India and without any criminal past.

If he manages to flee the IS-dominated areas – Indian agencies are actively helping him – he will be the second Indian IS recruit to escape after Kalyan-native Areeb Majeed.

Among the six Indians, who fought alongside the ISIS and got killed were three Indian Mujahideen terrorists, including Sultan Ajmer Shah and Bada Sajid, who had joined its ranks after being in Pakistan, two from Maharashtra and one from Telangana.

On September 15, UAE deported 4 Indians suspected to have hyperlinks with ISIS and it’s anticipated to ship again the identical variety of individuals quickly. About a fortnight ago, the UAE sent back Afsha Jabeen alias Nicky Joseph, 37, who was allegedly involved in recruiting gullible youth for the IS. So far, 17 young men, mostly from Telangana, have been prevented from travelling to Syria, ostensibly to join ISIS.