None from Bengaluru killed fighting for ISIS: City police

BENGALURU: Intelligence and local police are keeping a strict watch on the people, who have travelled from the city to the Middle East including the trouble torn countries like Yemen, Iraq and Syria in the last five years and have not returned and are in regular touch with them or their family members.

“We are in touch with the family members of the people who have gone to these countries and so far there is no report of any youth from Bengaluru, who have joined the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). We are also keeping a watch on our people with the help of diplomatic channels and are constantly briefed by the Ministry of Home Affairs,” said an Intelligence officer.

Denying the report, which appeared in a section of the media on Wednesday that two boys from Bengaluru – Faiz Masood of Cooke Town, Umar Subhan of Shivaji Nagar – have died fighting for the ISIS, top Intelligence officers said the names of the young men do not figure in any of the records. Police Inspectors of Pulekeshinagar, and Shivajinagar –

Thippeswamy and Nagaraj – said that they have scanned the passport details of those, who have travelled from their jurisdiction to the Middle East and the names of Masood and Subhan do not figure in them. “Their names don’t figure in the list of the missing people,” the officers added.