Mumbai police blocks websites replicating Charlie Hebdo cartoons
The decision was taken following a series of terror strikes in France.
Police said a few websites had been a strong source of radicalization in the recent past for four youth from Kalyan in Maharashtra who joined the Islamic State in Iraq.
It came to light following complaints of their relatives that the four had gone to Iraq on the pretext of a pilgrimage and then mysteriously disappeared.
Weeks later one of them called their family in India and informed they had joined the terror group.
The concerned families met Union home minister Rajnath Singh. One of them finally returned to India via Turkey and is now in the custody of the National Investigation Authority (NIA).
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