Telangana police encouraging Muslim youths to join IS:

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Press Trust of India New Delhi
Last Updated : May 01 2017 | 3:57 PM IST
Congress leader Digvijaya Singh today raked up a controversy, accusing Telangana police of radicalising Muslim youths and encouraging them to join the Islamic State by setting up a "bogus" website of the terror group.
Singh claimed that the state police set up the website to trap Muslims youths and it is "radicalising and encouraging them to become ISIS modules".
He asked Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao if he had authorised the state police "to trap Muslim Youths and encourage them to join the IS".
"If he has then shouldn't he own the responsibility and resign? If he hasn't then shouldn't he enquire and punish those who are responsible for committing such a heinous crime (sic)," he said in a tweet.
The Congress leader said on Twitter that it was based on Telangana police's information "that Madhya Pradesh police arrested those who were responsible for a bomb blast in a train in Shajapur district" on March 8.
He said the information had also led to the killing of terror suspect Mohammad Saifullaha in an encounter in Uttar Pradesh the same day.
Singh was on Saturday removed as office bearers in-charge of Congress units in Goa and Karnataka.

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First Published: May 01 2017 | 3:57 PM IST

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