Hyderabad: Hyderabad Police Commissioner Mahinder Reddy on Saturday confirmed that a girl from the city had tried to join the terrorist organisation Daesh but was brought back by her family.
Without identifying the girl, Reddy said she hails from Hyderabad but her family had settled down in the Gulf about 10 years ago. “The girl had gone to Turkey with the intention of joining Daesh as she was influenced by the propaganda on social networking sites”, Reddy said. But the girl did not undergo any armed training, he added.
Reddy said the girl was given a counselling by police officials after she was brought back to the city.
According to Telangana state intelligence sources, the girl had gone to Iraq to participate in armed action but was disappointed when the organisation assigned her the domestic chorus such as cooking for the fighters. “Unhappy with her situation, the girl contacted her family who brought her back”, sources said.
State intelligence was trying to find out whether anybody else from Hyderabad had also got attracted to Daesh through the girl.
The episode has come to light at a time when a US trained Hyderabadi engineer, Salman Moinuddin, completed his ten days police custody. Moinuddin, 32, who was arrested on January 16 when he was boarding a Gulf-bound flight at Hyderabad, was remanded back to judicial custody by a city court on Saturday. During questioning, by the resident of Habeebnagar area of Hyderabad told police that his plan was to go to Iraq to fight with Daesh and never to return. A British woman, Nicky, had promised to send him to Syria through Turkey to join the terrorist group. He denied he was planning to come back to Hyderabad to perpetrate any subversive activity.
While two Maharashtra youth Mudassir and Shoaib, suspected to be Daesh sympathisers, were granted bail by a city court earlier this week, police caught four other Hyderabadi youth in West Bengal as they were trying to leave for abroad to join Daesh, police source said.
