Mumbai: Days after releasing a propaganda video clip showing rifle-wielding Indian jihadists fighting government forces in Syria's Homs province, the dreaded Islamic State group revealed that among the Indian jihadists in the video, two of them belonged to Mumbai's Kalyan region.
According to a news report, the youth were identified as Fahad Tanveer Shaikh and Aman Naeem Tandel.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) said that Fahad Shaikh has been declared as the deputy caliph of the ISIS operations in India, whereas Aman Tandel has been promoted as the governor of ''Hind wal'Sindh", which is a Daesh name for India and Pakistan.
The video footage featuring Indian jihadists shows groups of militants on board small boats brandishing Kalashnikov rifles with an ISIS black flag in the background. It shows bearded faces of most of the militants.
In the video clip, Aman, the governor of ISIS in India and Pakistan, said, "We will return, but with a sword in hand, to avenge the Babri Masjid, and killings of Muslims in Kashmir, in Gujarat and in Muzaffarnagar."
Recently, ISIS recruits in India allegedly wanted to infiltrate the Kanhaiya Kumar-led protests at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and other universities in the country, in order to further agitate the students and create disorder.
According to a news report, on February 19, when Kanhaiya Kumar was in Tihar jail on sedition charges and students of several universities were holding demonstrations demanding his release, ISIS's Ahmad Ali asked Ashiq Ahmad alias Raja of Hooghly, to infiltrate the movement and burn vehicles and oil tankers.
Three recruits of India's ISIS wing — Junud al Khalifa-e-Hind (JKH) – have provided this information to the NIA. The names of the recruits are Ashiq Ahmad alias Raja, Mohammad Abdul Ahad and Mohammad Afzal. Their statements reveal that JKH was created as ISIS’ India wing and held meetings in Bengaluru, West Bengal and Punjab, says the report.
