According to the Russian news agency Sputnik, the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) announced on Monday that its agents had apprehended a suicide bomber who belonged to the Islamic State terrorist organisation and was preparing to carry out a terrorist attack against a member of India’s ruling elite.
Russia’s FSB said in a statement that it had “identified and detained a member of the international terrorist organisation Islamic State, which is banned in Russia, who is a native of a country in the Central Asian region, who planned to commit a terrorist act by blowing himself up against one of the representatives of India’s ruling circles.”
According to the statement, one of the IS leaders in Turkey recruited the arrested to carry out suicide bombings.
The Central Government has declared the Islamic State and all of its incarnations to be Terrorist Organizations and added them to the First Schedule of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967. The Home Ministry claims that IS is disseminating its ideology through numerous internet-based social media channels. The relevant agencies keep a watchful eye on cyberspace in this regard and take appropriate legal action.
