This is the first FIR in India registered in connection with a possible ISIS attack.
According to a senior officer in the Special Cell, the anti-terror unit of Delhi Police had started receiving intelligence inputs in June, which led to the registration of the FIR in around a week's time.
Alerts were sent to all police forces around the nation. Five persons - whose activities are being monitored through technical surveillance and local intelligence - are said to be under the special unit's scanner.
The case was registered after Special Cell officials received secret information about a "deep rooted conspiracy" being hatched against India by banned outfits like ISIS and AuT in connection with terrorist attacks in various cities, including Delhi, the senior officer added.
The rapid increase in activities of ISIS in India's neighbourhood, particularly in Maldives and Bangladesh, has risen the fear of its impact in India.
Security officials said that at least 250 Maldivians have left the archipelago to join ISIS and about four of them were reportedly killed while fighting in battle fields in Iraq and Syria. About 30 nationals of Maldives have returned home from the ISIS-held territories and reportedly active in the island nation.
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