Recent busting of terror modules in India signifies that terrorist outfits have adopted new methods to flee the clutches of safety and regulation enforcement companies. This development is seen in terrorist teams together with Islamic State, Khalistani outfits, and The Resistance Front (TRF), and many others. To additional their nefarious agenda, these outfits are undermining primary humanitarian values by the purposeful utilization of juveniles of their evil designs.

The teams now even have foreign-based handlers utilizing varied social media platforms together with Instagram and Facebook to radicalise potential recruits.

Investigations point out that juveniles are straightforward prey to on-line radicalisation and can be utilized as extremely motivated and dependable overground staff for terror actions. It is the acutely aware try of Pakistan-based terror handlers to deal with focusing on juveniles for his or her vulnerability. Terror handlers determine these juveniles on-line and cyber-engage them to construct rapport and belief.

At instances, Pakistan handlers additionally instantly contact these juveniles on WhatsApp and begin communication. Further, some juveniles in Kashmir valley had been additionally being equipped with narcotics in an try to hyperlink them with the narcotics terror community.

Such disturbing traits are being noticed in different components of the world as effectively. It is rising that terrorist handlers are utilizing juvenile boys protecting in thoughts a number of components, together with much less severity in punishment, a straightforward option to evade the radar of intelligence companies compared to seasoned gamers, their tech savviness, and many others.

While busting a module led by Basit Kalam Siddiqi from Varanasi (October 2022), central intelligence companies discovered that round four to five juveniles had been half of his (Basit Kalam’s) pro-Islamic State telegram channel specifically ‘The Caravan of Desert’. They had been networking with ISIS cadres/sympathisers throughout the globe and meant mass assaults by disseminating IED-making manuals by Telegram channels.

Similarly, throughout a nationwide search operation by varied state police companies towards Islamic State cadres and sympathisers in India (July 2022), round 7 to eight juveniles had been detained from varied states.

Investigations into latest terror assaults in Punjab additionally revealed an rising development of utilisation of juvenile boys for execution of these assaults. It is noticed that abroad-based handlers expertise spot these boys bodily in addition to by social media and inspire them to work for them in lieu of cash and fame. Young boys from this age group are being intentionally chosen for execution of terror assaults by gangsters, as they’re chargeable for a minor punishment.

Incidents whereby juveniles had been utilised for execution of assaults in Punjab embody the RPG assault at Punjab Police (Intelligence) Headquarters, Mohali (May 2022), homicide of Pardeep Kataria, DSS follower (November 2022), and RPG assault at Sanjh Kendra close to PS Sarhali, Distt Tarn Taran (December 2022).

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