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Mumbai, Jan 13: Mumbai police received an anonymous letter reportedly from the Islamic State or ISIS threatening to kill an Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS) officer from Pune and his family. The ISIS reportedly threatened to kill Pune ATS officer ACP Bhanupratap Barge and his family. ACP Bhanupratap Barge is the cop who de-radicalised a 16-year-old Muslim girl from Pune who was in touch with the ISIS and was being brain-washed by the terror outfit.
According to reports, the Mumbai Police Commissioner’s office received letter, which was allegedly written by an ISIS member, two weeks ago. The letter threatened to kill ACP Bhanupratap Barge and his family member because he prevented a Muslim girl from joining the ISIS by de-radicalising her. The Mumbai police is probing the matter. (ALSO READ: ISIS recruit lists his job skills on LinkedIn!)
ACP Bhanupratap Barge has stopped the minor girl from joining the ISIS a through de-radicalisation programme with the help of her family members and community religious leaders. The girl is a very bright convent educated Class XI student, who attracted towards ISIS after watching a documentary on television and subsequently started regularly monitoring news on Al Jazeera channel.
“Later, she used the internet to get in touch with ISIS contacts and got in touch with about 200 young persons from different countries. Her interrogation revealed that she was told to come to Syria for medical education and for further initiation,” Barge had said. Barge said the de-radicalisation programme with the help of family members and community people was “working” for the girl with encouraging results.
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