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December - 1 
Interrogation of Arif Majeed, a youth from Kalyan (Mumbai), who returned to Mumbai after fighting along with the Islamic State (IS) militants in Syria and Iraq, has revealed that the Kalyan group recruited by the IS in May 2014 was originally made up
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Interrogation of Arif Majeed, a youth from Kalyan (Mumbai), who returned to Mumbai after fighting along with the Islamic State (IS) militants in Syria and Iraq, has revealed that the Kalyan group recruited by the IS in May 2014 was originally made up of five youth, though one opted out at the last moment, reports Times of India on December 2. The agencies are now aware of the identity of this fifth man, and will question him to reconstruct events right from indoctrination to their journey to Iraq.
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December - 5 
Arif Majeed, the Islamic State (IS) militant who returned to India told investigators that he was part of a radicalised group of 40 students at Anjuman Islam's Kalsekar Technical College in Panvel (Maharashtra) and each one of them was referred to as
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Arif Majeed, the Islamic State (IS) militant who returned to India told investigators that he was part of a radicalised group of 40 students at Anjuman Islam's Kalsekar Technical College in Panvel (Maharashtra) and each one of them was referred to as Naqeeb, Urdu for a leader, Mumbai Mirror reports on December 6. Arif revealed that all 40 in the group spent a lot of time on the internet, mining information on terrorist groups and Islamic preachings. However, when an opportunity came their way to join the IS, everyone except Arif refused. And eventually Arif left for Iraq with three of his friends from Kalyan. Police is likely to question more students from the Anjuman Islam's Kalsekar Technical College in Panvel, where Arif did his engineering. The investigative agencies have already spoken with the college's Principal and shared this information with him.
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December - 7 
Islamic State (IS) recruit from Kalyan (Mumbai), Areeb Majeed, arrested after his return, is a trained suicide bomber who made as many as three attempts on Security Forces at different vital installations in Syria without any success, it has now emer
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Islamic State (IS) recruit from Kalyan (Mumbai), Areeb Majeed, arrested after his return, is a trained suicide bomber who made as many as three attempts on Security Forces at different vital installations in Syria without any success, it has now emerged, Times of India reports on December 8. The bullet injuries which he has received too were sustained in one of the many battles, including the August offensive on Mosul dam in Iraq, he participated in as an IS man against Iraqi and US forces. According to one of the interrogating officers Majeed fought alongside IS against Kurdish Peshmerga and US forces who eventually took over the dam. "After sustaining bullet injuries, he was given $2,000 by ISIS as reward and medical assistance before he fled to Turkey and decided to come back home," said the officer. These are some of the revelations Majeed made during interrogation. Until now, Majeed had maintained that he had not participated in any IS battle. He had also said that the two bullet injuries he sustained were during practice firing and that IS made him work as a mason.
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December - 12 
Bengaluru Police Commissioner M N Reddi said that cases had been registered against Mehdi Masroor Biswas, the alleged handler of the pro-Islamic State (IS) Twitter account, under various provisions of Indian Penal Code (IPC), Unlawful Activities (Pre
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Bengaluru Police Commissioner M N Reddi said that cases had been registered against Mehdi Masroor Biswas, the alleged handler of the pro-Islamic State (IS) Twitter account, under various provisions of Indian Penal Code (IPC), Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) and IT Act, Financial Express reports on December 13. Further, Karnataka Director General of Police (DGP) L Pachau said Mehdi had more than 17,000 followers on Twitter and used to “ferociously” tweet by aggregating information and closely watching developments of the region. Mehdi was interested in the Levantine region, also known as Eastern Mediterranean, consisting of Cyprus, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria and part of Southern Turkey from 2003 onwards, Pachau said. He used to work in the office during daytime and became active on the Internet at nights, he said, adding, he had bought 60 GB Internet connection on monthly basis to read all breaking news on websites relating to ISIS/ISL. Pachau added that through his social media propaganda, Mehdi abetted ISIL in its agenda to wage war against Asiatic powers.
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December - 12 
Intelligence agencies are scanning the employee records of a leading Indian software company headquartered in Bengaluru (Karanataka), to identify the man behind @ShamiWitness, an Islamic State (IS) propaganda Twitter account, The Times of India repor
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Intelligence agencies are scanning the employee records of a leading Indian software company headquartered in Bengaluru (Karanataka), to identify the man behind @ShamiWitness, an Islamic State (IS) propaganda Twitter account, The Times of India reports on December 13. This follows UK's Channel 4 report that claimed that one "Mehdi" was running what was "perhaps ISIS's most influential Twitter account, which was seen two million times each month and was followed by two-thirds of all foreign fighters" on the microblogging site. Intelligence sources identified him as Mehdi Masroor Biswas from Bengal. The channel claimed that in an interview to the channel, Mehdi said, "If I had a chance, I would've left everything and joined them. But my family needs me here. My parents are dependent on me." However, the account is no longer operational. It provided graphic accounts of the IS war, based on information provided to him by his online followers. The account operator is reported to have claimed that he was in regular contact with British jihadis before they left to join the IS and after they arrived. He had been encouraging IS fighters through his tweets, and had posted the video of US aid worker Peter Kassig's beheading five times, Channel 4 said, adding he had tweeted them "within minutes of it being uploaded to the internet". Bengaluru Police Commissioner MN Reddi said that his team was unable to ascertain whether the person operating the Twitter handle was from the city. "As of now, we can't confirm the information but we have to take such alerts seriously." There's possible use of proxy IP addresses, which is common, investigators said.
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December - 16 
Terror group Islamic State (IS) has been banned in India, Union Home Minister (UHM) Rajnath Singh disclosed on December 16, reports Outlook."We have banned this organisation (IS) as a first step. I will like to inform (the House) that the group has b
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Terror group Islamic State (IS) has been banned in India, Union Home Minister (UHM) Rajnath Singh disclosed on December 16, reports Outlook."We have banned this organisation (IS) as a first step. I will like to inform (the House) that the group has been banned under Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act," he said during the Lok Sabha (Lower House of Indian Parliament) Question Hour. Singh said the group has been proscribed under the provisions of UAPA that relates to organisations listed in the Schedule to the U N Prevention and Suppression of Terrorism (Implementation of Security Council Resolutions) Order, 2007 made under section two of the United Nations (Security Council) Act, 1947 and amended from time to time. He also added that there is "negligible" support from Indian youth for IS. Singh said it cannot be said with guarantee about whether they are involved with IS or its activities. Singh also assured the Lok Sabha that no innocent person from minority community would be taken into custody with regard to suspected terror activities and if there are such instances, these can be brought to his notice.
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December - 17 
On December 17, Madhya Pradesh counter-terrorist group and Anti-Terrorist Squad detained three persons, from Rampur Patel mohalla of Jabalpur, reports The Times of India. They followed and interacted with Islamic State (IS) propaganda on twitter acco
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On December 17, Madhya Pradesh counter-terrorist group and Anti-Terrorist Squad detained three persons, from Rampur Patel mohalla of Jabalpur, reports The Times of India. They followed and interacted with Islamic State (IS) propaganda on twitter account @ShamiWitness run by Mehdi Masroor Biswas. The trio was among 17,700 followers of Mehdi's twitter handle, intelligence sources said.
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December - 17 
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) produced Islamic State (IS) operative Areeb Majeed before the special NIA court on December 17, which remanded him in judicial custody till December 30, 2014, reports Hindustan Times. NIA had earlier obtained A
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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) produced Islamic State (IS) operative Areeb Majeed before the special NIA court on December 17, which remanded him in judicial custody till December 30, 2014, reports Hindustan Times. NIA had earlier obtained Areeb’s custody till December 22. 2014. Areeb has been booked under sections 16, 18, 20 of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) and section 125 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). Earlier, on December 16, NIA said that their investigations had not indicated any direct link between alleged Areeb Majeed and Mehdi Masroor Biswas. “Areeb has said in his interrogation that he followed several accounts on Twitter as well as on Facebook. We initially suspected that Areeb might have been following Biswas’s account. However, we have not found anything to confirm a connection between the two,” said an NIA officer. The officer added that they have already contacted service providers in India as well as abroad and sought details of all the online forums that Areeb actively participated in.
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December - 18 
Areeb Majeed, the Islamic State (IS) militant, who was brought back to India from Turkey on November 28, 2014 by intelligence officials and is now in judicial custody, was released on ‘formal leave’ and was dropped off by four IS militants in Istanbu
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Areeb Majeed, the Islamic State (IS) militant, who was brought back to India from Turkey on November 28, 2014 by intelligence officials and is now in judicial custody, was released on ‘formal leave’ and was dropped off by four IS militants in Istanbul (Turkey) with USD 2,000 cash, said National Intelligence Agency (NIA) sources, Hindustan Times reports on December 19. Majeed has told his interrogators that he participated in the August battle to capture Mosul dam in Iraq under the leadership of Georgian mercenary Abu Omar al-Shishani, a former Sergeant with the Georgian Army and a veteran of the second Chechen war. Majeed told his interrogators that he also participated in the battles for the Baiji refinery and Tal Afar, a city in northwestern Iraq. He named an ex-Syrian Army officer Abu Anas and Abu Mariam of Tal Afar as his IS controllers and said Egyptian Abu Hatf al-Masari was the administrative controller of IS, said the sources. The sources said that Majeed had confirmed that at least four Indian-origin British nationals were fighting with IS in Iraq and said he has no knowledge of the 39 Indian labourers said to be held hostage by the IS in Mosul since June, 2014.
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December - 21 
As the National Investigating Agency (NIA) investigates case of Areef Majeed the youth from Kalyan who returned to India after joining Islamic State (IS), they have stumbled upon various Non-Governmental Organisation's (NGO) which help such a cause,
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As the National Investigating Agency (NIA) investigates case of Areef Majeed the youth from Kalyan who returned to India after joining Islamic State (IS), they have stumbled upon various Non-Governmental Organisation's (NGO) which help such a cause, oneindia.com reports on December 22. There were a large number of Wahabi scholars who had visited India in the past couple of years and according to an Intelligence Bureau (IB) report the number was around 25000. These scholars came to India, preached and also ensured that several NGO's such as the Islamic Guidance Society were set up in a bid to help youth who wanted to go abroad and fight the war to set up the Sharia law. According to the investigation the Islamic Guidance Society has time and again held meetings in various areas of Thane District in Maharashtra such as Mumbra, Bhiwandi and also Kalyan. They have been saying that the Muslim youth must prepare for the apocalypse. This is only possible through Ghazwa-e-Hind and the time has come for an Islamic war on India.
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December - 21 
Investigations reveal that Mehdi Masroor Biswas, pro-Islamic State (IS) Twitter handler had two other Twitter accounts, The Times of India reports on December 22. He was initially believed to have Twitter handles @ShamiWitness and @ElSaltador. Mehdi,
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Investigations reveal that Mehdi Masroor Biswas, pro-Islamic State (IS) Twitter handler had two other Twitter accounts, The Times of India reports on December 22. He was initially believed to have Twitter handles @ShamiWitness and @ElSaltador. Mehdi, however, claimed to have forgotten the passwords to the other two Twitter accounts, sources privy to the investigation said. Mehdi is learnt to have had three e-mail accounts and used them regularly to be in touch with supporters of his Twitter accounts, sources said. But the suspect is believed to have deflected further queries, claiming he does not remember the passwords for email accounts as well.
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December - 22 
One of the three Kalyan youths, suspected to have joined Islamic State (IS), has reportedly been made captive by the extremist group when he was trying to flee, the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW) is learnt to have informed the Government, Indian E
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One of the three Kalyan youths, suspected to have joined Islamic State (IS), has reportedly been made captive by the extremist group when he was trying to flee, the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW) is learnt to have informed the Government, Indian Express reports on December 23. “There have been reports that IS is executing fighters who want to desert the group and we have got reports that one of the Kalyan men is in their custody,” said a senior official.
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December - 23 
A tweet from fugitive Fahad Shaikh, an Islamic State (IS) recruit from Kalyan, threatens a terror attack on the Gujarati community in Mumbai (Maharashtra), Mid Day reports on December 24. In the tweet, sent out recently, Fahad Shaikh has threatened a
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A tweet from fugitive Fahad Shaikh, an Islamic State (IS) recruit from Kalyan, threatens a terror attack on the Gujarati community in Mumbai (Maharashtra), Mid Day reports on December 24. In the tweet, sent out recently, Fahad Shaikh has threatened an attack on Gujaratis in Mumbai, say intelligence officials. The tweet reads: ‘26/11 in India was targeted bcoz Gujaratis financed riot in Gujarat and killed many innocent Muslims. Now they are in the first class...boom...’ According to Intelligence Bureau (IB) officials, the message clearly depicts the Kalyan youth’s hatred towards the Gujarati community. They say the Gujarat riots had played a key role in indoctrinating youngsters like him. Meanwhile, taking serious note of the threat, the Mumbai Police has ensured that the entire force is on its toes. The Gujarati pockets in Mumbai's Mulund, Ghatkopar, Vile Parle, Kandivli, Borivli and Dahisar have been put on high alert.
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December - 24 
Terror outfit Islamic State (IS) appeared to have emerged as a threat factor in the Indian security radar during 2014, The Times of India reports on December 25. The arrest of a Bangalore-based executive, Mehdi Masroor Biswas, who was operating a pro
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Terror outfit Islamic State (IS) appeared to have emerged as a threat factor in the Indian security radar during 2014, The Times of India reports on December 25. The arrest of a Bangalore-based executive, Mehdi Masroor Biswas, who was operating a pro-IS Twitter handle to propagate the ideology of the Middle-East terrorist group, climaxed some disquieting events earlier in the year. The disappearance of four Mumbai youths in Iraq-Syria and return of one of them raised concerns over how some of the Indian Muslim youths have become radicalized through social networking sites and other cyber outlets. Intelligence Bureau (IB) Chief Asif Ibrahim recently 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. The Indian hinterland continues to remain the prime focus of Pakistan-based terrorist outfits, particularly the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) and Indian Mujahideen (IM), as the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (UMHA) found that these groups were setting up their infrastructure in Bangladesh and using the porous Indo-Bangla border to send arms and ammunition into India. Blast in a madrasa (Islamic Seminary) in West Bengal's Bardhaman District has pointed out designs of the terrorists of the neighbouring country to set up bases in India. During 2014, the UMHA also extended the ban imposed on Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) saying if not curbed, the outfit will reorganise and "disrupt the secular fabric" of the country. The extension came as the government found that the activities of the outfit continue to be "prejudicial to the integrity and security of the country".
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December - 29 
The low-intensity bomb explosion on December 28, in Bangalore prompted Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah to announce the setting up of a special cadre for intelligence in Karnataka Police besides recruiting 40 software engineers to the Police for
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The low-intensity bomb explosion on December 28, in Bangalore prompted Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah to announce the setting up of a special cadre for intelligence in Karnataka Police besides recruiting 40 software engineers to the Police force on December 29, reports Economic Times. The announcement came after Siddaramaiah held a meeting of top Police, home department and administration officials. A new law along the lines of the Andhra Pradesh Public Safety is also being contemplated. It would make mandatory the setting up of CCTVs and access checks in all places where more than a hundred gather. In this specific case, Bengaluru Police Commissioner M N Reddi said a reward of INR 10,00,000 would be given for any information leading to the arrest of the perpetrators. Siddaramaiah said the Police were looking into the possible involvement of terror groups like Al Ummah, Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) and Indian Mujahideen (IM). While investigators unofficially said the blast had the fingerprints of Al Ummah from Tamil Nadu, Reddi revealed that the Chennai police showed interest in blast due to its similarity to the Coimbatore blast of 1998 and a couple of blasts reportedly triggered by them in Andhra Pradesh. "We are exchanging information with Chennai Police", he added.
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December - 31 
Government has blocked 32 websites citing national security concerns, as they were allegedly carrying anti-India material from terror groups such as Islamic State (IS),reports IBN Live on January 1. "We have blocked some websites, as there were
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Government has blocked 32 websites citing national security concerns, as they were allegedly carrying anti-India material from terror groups such as Islamic State (IS),reports IBN Live on January 1. "We have blocked some websites, as there were serious national security concerns," an unnamed government official said. The websites that have faced the crackdown include popular video sharing platforms like DailyMotion and Vimeo, while some of them have been allowed to function after removing the objectionable content. The websites were purportedly containing material about Areeb Majid, an alleged Islamic State member who was arrested by National Investigation Agency (NIA), and three others hailing from Bhatkal area in Karnataka.Sources said the websites were being used to induce Indian youth to join IS and for spreading news about purported death of certain persons while fighting Allied Forces in countries like Afghanistan and Iraq.
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December - 31 
With terror elements drafting the youth for Islamic State (IS) through encrypted forms or closed room chat boxes on social media sites, Telangana Police are in the process of strengthening their cyber hacking system by procuring advanced tools to pen
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With terror elements drafting the youth for Islamic State (IS) through encrypted forms or closed room chat boxes on social media sites, Telangana Police are in the process of strengthening their cyber hacking system by procuring advanced tools to penetrate the ‘terror web’, reports Times of India on January 1.The report said that Ansar-ul-Tawhid al-Hind (AuT), a suspected offshoot of the Indian Mujahideen (IM), has been making efforts to recruit local youth online for the IS. Abdul Khadar Sultan Armar, a key member of AuT, has been scouring the internet for fresh recruits. Adept at eluding security agencies, his role as recruiter came to the fore during his vain bid to recruit four engineering students from Hyderabad recently. Armar, who is suspected to be hiding in Afghanistan or Pakistan, became cautious about his covert online activities. According to intelligence sources, Armar had in the past interacted with prospective recruits through Skype, but after learning that his activities were being monitored, reportedly started taking precautions and avoiding online interactions. Intelligence sleuths are now acquiring advanced hacking tools to penetrate the closed chat rooms and crack encrypted conversations of AuT to unravel their impending conspiracies. "About four to five people, including Armar and a few former Student Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) activists, sitting in Af-Pak or Gulf countries have been actively trying to lure local youth in Hyderabad and other parts of the country. A Bhatkal-based fugitive gang is behind this recruitment drive,'' intelligence sources said.Till date, state police could stop indoctrinated youths in at least six cases while trying to leave India to join global terror outfits. Besides these, some local SIMI activists had also uploaded blasphemous pictures on a social media website and fanned trouble in distant Bareilly in UP. An analysis by cyber wing officials traced its IP address to Madannapet and Kurmaguda, but elements behind the mischief are untraceable.
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