The State Special Branch and the Intelligence Bureau have raised concerns that Dubai has become the cyber capital for propagating extremist ideas in India.
According to details collected by the Intelligence Bureau Cyber Wing, the majority of religious sentiments expressed in posts and uploads is coming from Dubai and is being propagated through their activists in India.
According to an IB official, most of the extremist posts that have been creating enmity between various religious communities were posted from Dubai. “Over 60 per cent of the terrorism-backed posts being uploaded on the Internet and social networking websites are from Dubai. Several people in Kerala propagate these posts through e-mails or by sharing them. There are also uploads from Pakistan. In Kerala, most of these posts are being shared by the activists of these extremist groups in Malabar. They also have a good base in Kerala as most of their funds come to the state via Dubai. These groups mainly target social networking sites,” the IB official said. Intelligence agencies suspect that the ISI is behind these activities. “ISI is active in the cyber world. They have hacked several Indian websites. The political parties suspected to be behind the fake SMS case leading to the people returning from the north-eastern states have secret links with the ISI,” the IB official said.
However, it is hard to arrest these people though intelligence agencies can track down people operating from other countries in the cyber world. “Arresting them is beyond our jurisdiction, but we can identify and book the people, who propagate these ideas via e-mail and Facebook in India,” the IB official said.
The Kerala police Internal Security wing has collected details revealing that many Internet uploads provoking religious sentiments are mostly from the northern districts in the state. However, there is a decline in the trend in the recent months.
An Internal Security wing official said, the parties supporting the extremist activities find it easy to operate through the Internet. “We are on the drive to track down the persons who uploaded such content in the last three months. Most of these uploads came from the rural parts of Malappuram, Kannur and Kasargod. But such activities have declined as intelligence agencies in the country are frequently monitoring such activities,” the official said.
Comments
0 comment