ISIS failed to set foot in India: Rajnath Singh

Home Minister Rajnath Singh in New Delhi yesterday. Pic/PTI

Terror outfit ISIS had not been able to set foot in India despite the presence of the world's second largest Muslim population, Home Minister Rajnath Singh said yesterday.

Barring two terror attacks in Punjab in 2015-16, the security situation in the country had by and large remained under control, the minister said at a press conference on three years of the Modi government.

More than 90 sympathisers of ISIS had been arrested due to better coordination between state and central security agencies. Five terrorists of the Indian Mujahideen group were given capital punishment as part of the government's focused efforts to check terrorism, Singh said.

"India is the second largest country as far as Muslim population in the world is concerned. I can say with full responsibility that despite such a large population [of Muslims], the ISIS has not been able to set foot," he said.

He said there had been a 45 per cent reduction in infiltration attempts from Pakistan since the surgical strike by the Army in September 2016, compared to the corresponding six months in the previous year.

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