NEW DELHI: Government has no clue yet about the identity of four Indian youths held in Syria for allegedly planning to join dreaded terror group ISIS but suspects that they might have been based in some Gulf countries from where they travelled to Damascus.
Government officials said they were totally off guard when Syrian Deputy Prime minister Walid Al Moaulem, who was on a three-day visit to India last week, disclosed that the four Indian youths were taken into custody for allegedly planning to join ISIS.
“We have no idea who the youths are, from where they originally hail from. We suspect they might have gone from some Gulf countries. We are still verifying their antecedents,” an official said.
During the delegation level meeting, when the Indian officials asked the Syrian Deputy Prime Minister to give details of the four youths, he is said to have said that he was not police and did not know the details.
Moaulem had said: “Four Indians were taken into Syrian custody in Damascus. The four young Indians were planning to join the ISIS and had entered Syria from Jordan”. (AGENCIES)
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