NIA analysing IS video featuring purported Indian fighters

The NIA is analysing the video released by the ISIS in which purported Indian fighters in the terror troup have threatened to target India to avenge the Babri Masjid demolition, alleged atrocities on Muslims in Kashmir and during the Muzaffarnagar riots. The NIA is in the process of identifying all the six people who were part of the 22-minute video aired on Friday last and later taken off.

Some of them are from Maharashtra and one or two are part of the Azamgarh module, official sources said, adding help of an arrested Islamic State operative Areeb Majid was being taken to identify them.

One of the men in the video has claimed that he was at Batla House when police had raided the premises and fled afterwards.