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Security ramped up at Taj Mahal after IS threat
The Uttar Pradesh police have increased security around the Taj Mahal after a new poster doing the rounds on the internet claims that the Islamic State has set sight on Agra\'s famed monument.
New Delhi: The Uttar Pradesh police have increased security around the Taj Mahal after a new poster doing the rounds on the internet claims that the Islamic State has set sight on Agra's famed monument.
Warning of attacks in India, terror outfit Islamic State has released a graphic depicting Agra’s famed Taj Mahal as a possible target.
According to reports, the graphic image showing an image of Taj Mahal in the backdrop with an ISIS terrorist standing next to it was posted by the Ahwaal Ummat Media Center on a channel of Telegram, the encrypted communication app, on March 14.
The US-based Site Intelligence Group, which tracks jihadi activity, said the pro-IS Ahwaal Ummat Media Center had published the graphic on Telegram. "There have been no specific intelligence inputs or any official alerts, but going by media reports we have stepped up security at the Taj," senior police superintendent Preetender Singh said on Friday. "Security drills are being carried out on a six-hourly basis instead of the usual daily drill."
Members of the bomb disposal squad and Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) team have been deployed with additional personnel patrolling the Yamuna river which flows next to the Taj, he said. However, political leaders say that the IS group does not have influence in the country.
There have been some reports of Indians going to fight for the group in Iraq and Syria, but the numbers are low relative to the size of the population.
Last week, police said an IS sympathiser accused in a train explosion that injured 10 people had been killed in a stand-off as they tried to arrest him. Singh said the nature of any threat remained unclear but police did not want to leave anything to chance.
