Thiruvananthapuram: The United Arab Emirates has deported four people of Indian origin for suspected links to terrorist organisation Islamic State. They have now been detained at Kozhikode and Thiruvananthapuram airports in Kerala by police officials.
“We are verifying the details and questioning them to find out the authenticity of the suspicion. For now they have been detained. Their identities cannot be revealed for security reasons,” a top official said. The deported four have told interrogators that they were in touch with two men who had joined the terror group out of “curiosity towards ISIS,” as per sources.
The deportation follows the recent Afsha Jabeen alias Nicky Joseph's being sent back from the UAE
for being involved in recruiting youth for ISIS. Earlier this month, a youth who was deported by Saudi Arabia was detained at the Kozhikode airport on doubts of being an Islamic State or ISIS sympathiser. But he was released by the police after they found no evidence to confirm the links.
