Terror group vows revenge for Batla house encounter

On the sixth anniversary of the 2008 Batla House encounter on Friday, terror group Ansar-ul-Tawhid Fi Bilad Al Hind has issued a threat to avenge the killings of Indian Mujahideen members who died in the encounter.

Friday marked the sixth anniversary of the encounter of two terrorists by Delhi police inside a small house in Delhi’s Batla House area.

AuT is an offshoot of the Indian Mujahideen, and is said to have a global reach, virtually acting as the Indian arm of the Islamic State by spreading its propaganda.

Like their social-media-savvy counterpart in the Middle East, this terror outfit put out a series of tweets on Friday, some of which read – “Batla House Encounter. In Sha Allah We Will revenge.”

It also posted a picture of the two terrorists who were killed in the encounter with a message – “Hereupon, We the mujahideens renew our pledge to avenge the martyrdom of Batla House encounter and other oppressed Muslims including our imprisoned brothers unless and until we establish Sharia law in India under the global Khilafah (Caliphate) wiping out all the man-made boundaries.”

The messages and the veracity of the threat is yet to be verified by the authorities. 

The Twitter page of AuT is flooded with gory images of executions and beheadings by the Islamic State, and last month, the group had uploaded a propaganda video by the IS with subtitles in Hindi, Tamil and Urdu, in a bid to reach out to Indian youth.

This new threat comes weeks after Al Qaeda announced its Indian wing.