JeM suspects's terror trail: A girlfriend for honey-trap, a gamer for surveillance
Indian authorities are investigating a terror module linked to Jaish-e-Mohammed that used social media and gaming platforms to recruit and radicalize youth. Suspects allegedly used honey-traps and online gaming interactions to assign surveillance tasks against government officials.
Why it matters
It highlights the growing threat of digital radicalization and the use of mainstream online platforms for operational terror activities.
KOLKATA: The West Bengal Special Task Force (STF) is probing how a Pakistan-linked terror module used social media and an online gaming platforms to identify, recruit and assign operational roles to youngsters, as investigators widen their probe into the network around suspected Jaish-e-Mohammed operative Hamim Mondal.The probe has so far revealed two alleged recruitment trails involving people who came in contact with Hamim Mondal through digital platforms.As per news agency PTI, while 22-year-old Arpita Sarkar, an aspiring social media influencer from Jharkhand, allegedly met Hamim Mondal on Instagram nearly four years ago and later became his 'girlfriend', another suspected associate, Aditya Singh alias Raj alias Raju, is believed to have come in contact with Hamim through an online gaming platform.Investigators suspect Hamim allegedly used these online interactions to draw people into his network and subsequently assigned them specific tasks.Aditya, who was arrested from Belilious Road in Howrah on Monday, is…
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