This Article is From Feb 01, 2015

Nine Indians Held Near Syria Border, Deported to Bangalore

Nine Indians Held Near Syria Border, Deported to Bangalore

Nine Indian citizens were held close to the Syria border and deported to Bangalore on January 30, according to a press release issued by the police, which added that the group had left India on December 24.

The group includes a 46-year-old man, his wife and five children from Chennai, a 24-year-old man from Khammam district of Telangana, and a 24-year-old man from Hassan in Karnataka.

According to the police, the man from Chennai has a Master's degree in Computer Science from Kennedy-Western University, California, and has worked in the United States for more than 10 years. The other men are also engineers.

Bengaluru Police Commissioner M N Reddi told NDTV that these people had neither been arrested nor detained; they were only being questioned about why they were headed to Syria. They were questioned at the airport by city police and central agencies.

In December, the police had arrested a young man from Bangalore for allegedly operating the most influential Twitter handle for terror group Islamic State - @shamiwitness. The Twitter handle had over 17,000 followers.

.