Police foil terror attacks during Diwali
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INDIAN police have arrested six members of an Islamic State-inspired group suspected of plotting attacks on key figures and public places during the Hindu festival of Diwali, the national counter-terrorism agency said yesterday.
IS has struggled to win over many recruits in India, which is home to the world’s third-largest Muslim population.
But over the past year or so, the National Investigation Agency has found small groups of people in the southern states of Kerala and Tamil Nadu who had either traveled to Syria to join the militant Sunni group or who had planned attacks inside India.
On Sunday, the NIA picked up the six men while they were in a meeting at a hilltop shrine in Kerala and said that they were gathering explosives and other material with the intention of mounting attacks in southern India during Diwali later this month.
“During the searches, incriminating material including electronic devices have been seized from their possession and search of their premises,” the agency said, calling them members of an “Islamic State-inspired terror module.”
The men were between the ages of 24 and 30, an official at the agency said.
Earlier this year, investigators said that 12 men, six women and three children went missing from Kerala and were later believed to have joined Islamic State.
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