The families in Kasargod or Palakkad, Kerala, of four Indian women who had shifted to Afghanistan along with their husbands, had joined the Islamic State terror group, and are now lodged in Kabul’s Pul-e-Charkhi prison from the past 17 months want them to return back to India. These Indian nationals who joined the IS are highly radicalised and could pose a security threat. The union government should not allow them to return back to India.
Kerala has been found to have the highest number of pro-IS cases in India. And it raises a question about the increasing footprint of IS in the southern India. In 2020, the UN report on terrorism warned India about the significant number of IS terrorists in Kerala and Karnataka.
These women left India of their own volition and joined an Islamic caliphate. Section 10 of the Citizenship Act, 1955 says that a citizen can be deprived of citizenship if they have shown themselves by act or speech to be disloyal or disaffected towards the Constitution of India as per established law. Pledging allegiance to the separate caliphate is not only disloyalty but a fraud on the Constitution.
