NEW DELHI: The Centre has sounded an alert over increasing number of Rohingya Muslims settling in India and tasked the home ministry with calling a meeting of states to ask them to monitor the activities of the community amid fear that its members may be radicalised to become terrorists. Deputy NSA Arvind Gupta held a meeting last week on the issue over increasing infiltration of Rohingya Muslims into India from Myanmar Senior Intelligence Bureau and home ministry officials present at the meeting said that the government did not know for sure how many members of the community were settled in the country, as estimates range from 15,000 to 40,000. “The intelligence agencies and home ministry expressed concern to the deputy NSA that Rohingya Muslims could be cannon fodder for jihadist organisations given the persecution they have faced at home and were forced to flee Myanmar,” a senior government official said.States need to keep a close eye on the community, the official said. The ministry also informed Gupta that a group of Rohingya Muslims intercepted at the Tripura border last year was found to be accompanied by a Kashmiri man. “That person confessed that Rohingya Muslims were increasingly settling in J&K and marrying Kashmiri girls due to a dearth of men in Kashmir. This is an alarming development,” an official said.As per home ministry estimates, Rohingya Muslims have settled in various states such as West Bengal Andhra Pradesh (mainly Hyderabad), Kerala, sensitive places in UP such as Moradabad and Muzaffarnagar, Jammu and parts of the Kashmir Valley and Delhi.