Delhi Police is constantly monitoring social media and will take strict legal action against those flaring communal tension. (Photo: PTI)

Terror outfits, including ISIS, are scrambling to use riots images for radicalisation and headhunting, sending security agencies in a tizzy.

According to security agencies, encrypted chat rooms, Telegram, WhatsApp and DarkNet are buzzing with propaganda, exhorting youth to pick up gun and join Jihad.

The image of a Muslim man being violently attacked during the Delhi riots moved everyone on social media. But what is more worrying is that the image was turned into a poster by Islamic State asking the Muslims of India to unite and join Jihad.

The revelation was made after the investigating agencies found posters and online newsletter by an Indian subcontinent focused Islamic State-aligned media unit on encrypted chat network.

The ISIS document carries a picture of CAA protest at Red Fort on its cover with a message - So where are you going? A call to Muslims of India. The online magazine also has images of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and NSA Ajit Doval.

As per investigators the magazine surfaced on February 27 and also features Asaduddin Owaisi and Kanhaiya Kumar as freedom fighters. Investigating agencies have found many morphed images, videos and hate speeches circulating on chat apps.

"This has come to our notice and such activities are being monitored," said a senior official of a central investigating agency.

According to sources, intelligence agencies have information that the sleeper cells of some terror outfits are already striving to identify the vulnerable people, who are proactively participating in CAA protest, and can be radicalised.

"We are tracking where such contents are originating and circulating. To stop mass circulation we request service provider to block it," said a senior official of Crime Branch of Delhi Police.

It is not for the first time that Islamic State has made an effort to capitalise on the local conflicts to incite Muslims to join them.

Earlier too, videos and pictures purportedly showing atrocities on Muslims in India were used by the global terror outfit to incite the community.

"For radicalization old visuals or footage from Kashmir was used. Circulation of such messages drastically went down after banning internet in the valley post scrapping of Article 370 in J&K. But after Delhi violence images and videos are being misused to incite violence. The timing and sequence of incident hints how there can be a bigger agenda behind the violence," said Neelesh Purohit, a cyber intelligence investigator.

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