ISIS terrorist detained In Russia, admits plot against Indian leader

An ISIS terrorist detained by Russian security agency for planning an attack in India has confessed that he was preparing an act of terror targetting "one of the representatives of the ruling circles of India," the Russian news agency reported. The detained terrorist said he planned to execute the act in the wake of the row triggered by remarks. According to Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), the foreign national was recruited by one of the Islamic State’s ringleaders as a suicide bomber sometime between April and June 2022, while in Turkey, state-owned TASS news agency reported on Monday.ISIS and all its affiliate organisations, responsible for a series of savage attacks and killings in Iraq and Syria, have been banned in India under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.

In the video released by FSB of the Russian Federation in Russia the terrorist could be heard admitting that he was supposed to take revenge in India "for insulting the Prophet". Recruited by one of the ISIS leaders as a suicide bomber in Turkey, the terrorist said said that he planned to commit an act of terrorism against a member of India's ruling circles by blowing himself up. "Russia's FSB identified and detained a member of the Islamic State international terrorist organization banned in Russia, 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 the ruling circles of India," the authority said in a statement, as quoted by Sputnik.