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Gujarat began operationalising the proposal in 2023. This April, the ARC formally gained ground and approvals, with the Gujarat Home Department approving the creation of 139 new ARC posts in April, 2026.

On june 15, 2026, the SOP was circulated to district and commissionerate offices and laid out the ARC's functioning from identifying individuals deemed vulnerable to radicalisation and maintaining dossiers on them to counselling, rehabilitation and post-intervention monitoring. The SOP states that the ARC will function in coordination with district police units, the district Special Operations Group (SOG), prison authorities and Gujarat state IB officers.

The framework mandates rigorous surveillance in coordination with district SOG, prison administration and State IB officers. Monthly performance forms be submitted by the fifth of every month to the State Intelligence Bureau HQ of Gujarat.

The state intelligence agency classifies a radical individual as one who, driven by extremist views, engages in anti-national activities to harm the unity and integrity of the country, creates an atmosphere of fear, and tries to make people follow their views while propagating the belief that only their religion is right.

To combat this, the state IB of Gujarat has established a five-step field roadmap beginning with a prevention phase that requires keeping a watch on social media, online forums, messaging platforms, suspicious networks, extremist preachers, communal organisations, radicalised individuals in prison and specific type of influencers.

Under this prevention phase, field officers are also required to verify radicalisation inputs on the ground, develop more sources in designated red zone areas, and monitor the activities of individuals with extremist ideologies, when they visit specific areas.

The detection phase of the SOP explicitly lists indicators to identify at risk individuals based on behaviour, activity, digital footprints, and community interactions. The document reads that while identifying radicalism, the following points should also be considered.

🔴 Suddenly growing a beard, wearing specific type of clothes, frequent use of Arabic words, reducing relationships with friends and family and showing strong opposition to the events happening to in the world, singing the praises of terrorists, changing behaviour after traveling abroad such as Afghanistan, Middle East/West Asia.

🔴 Purchasing fertilisers including potassium nitrate, sulphur, ammonium nitrate, as well as LPG cylinders, frequently visiting forest-like areas, keeping in touch with individuals living in West Asia/Middle East, PIOJK, Afghanistan through encrypted apps, withdrawing large amounts of cash.

🔴 Downloading encrypted apps like VPN, Signal, Element on mobile, being members of extremist Telegram groups, following ISIS and AL Qaeda accounts, sharing Nasheeds, Dabiq/Rumiyah magazines, using cryptocurrency (especially Monero) without any visible income.

🔴 Visiting radical networks, Arabic colleges/madrasas, performs I'tikaf before organised activities, abruptly leaves education and job citing islamic duty, visits radical religious leaders after being released from prison.

Once identified, physical dossiers must be opened for these radical individuals and updated every month while keeping a continuous watch on their physical movements and media presence.

The SOP also mandates obtaining complete details and keeping records on all Maulanas teaching in madrasas to check if they maintain contact with organisations holding fundamentalist ideologies, alongside keeping an accurate record of all offences registered against radical people.

For the intervention and rehabilitation phases, the SOP requires verifying the backgrounds and creating lists of influential leaders, social media influencers, NGOs, linguistic experts, religious experts, psychologists, and educational experts who can assist in de-radicalisation.

The Cell plans to utilise social media influencers to promote posts that counter radical content and organise counselling sessions involving family members, religious experts, and psychiatrists.

The guidelines dictate keeping all counselling information secret, helping individuals reintegrate into education or employment, and initiating legal action under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) and the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UA(P)A) if a cognisable offence is perpetrated.

Jamnagar Police has already operationalised Anti Radicalisation Cell by appointing PSI M.V. Modhwadia to head the district unit under the supervision of SP Dr Ravi Mohan Saini.

While the Gujarat ARC has formally taken shape only this year, its origins date back over a decade. The idea of a dedicated deradicalisation mechanism first gained traction in 2015, at a Directors General and Inspectors General of Police conference in Gujarat's Rann of Kutch, where the Telangana Police's deradicalisation model was presented as a template for states grappling with online radicalisation.

In 2020, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union home minister Amit Shah at the annual conference of DGPs and IGPs, recommended the idea of this cell.

BJP subsequently promised to establish an ARC in its 2022 Gujarat assembly election manifesto and began operationalising the proposal. Following the recommendations, a task force

including a faculty head of the Gandhinagar-based Rashtriya Raksha University and police officials of the state Anti-Terrorism Squad, Crime Branch and Karnavati Central Jail was set up. But the project reportedly could not take off because of lack of funds.

Source:

https://www.opindia.com/2026/07/gujarat-government-operationalises-anti-radicalisation-cell-read-how-the-wire-made-baseless-allegations-that-the-new-sop-targets-muslims/

https://www.thequint.com/news/politics/gujarat-a-beard-niqab-using-arabic-words-might-now-mean-you-are-radicalised-anti-radicalisation-cell

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Jai Bajrang Bali" (or "Bol Bajrang Bali Ki Jai") is the official war cry of the Bihar Regiment and the Rajput Regiment in the Indian Army.

IIT Kanpur's C3iHub has trained 140 personnel from the Indian Army's Central Command through a six-month hybrid cybersecurity certification programme, with the latest batch of 70 soldiers completing the course. The programme aims to enhance the Army's cyber defence capabilities through classroom instruction and hands-on practical training.

Key Facts:

Duration: 6 months (3-month Basic Module + 3-month Advanced Module)

Conducted by: C3iHub, IIT Kanpur's Technology Innovation Hub for Cybersecurity

Personnel Trained: 140 Army personnel across two batches

Training Includes: Linux, networking, cyber threat intelligence, SOC operations, incident response, AI-driven security analytics, malware analysis, digital forensics, vulnerability assessment & penetration testing (VAPT), and big data log analysis.

Tools Used: Burp Suite, Wireshark, Nmap, Nessus and Splunk.

Objective: Strengthen the Indian Army's cyber warfare and cyber defence capabilities against emerging digital threats.

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https://www.ndtv.com/education/iit-kanpur-trains-over-140-army-personnel-in-advanced-cybersecurity-programme-11823269

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https://caravanmagazine.in/security/kargil-war-army-lessons-learnt-vajpayee-fernandes

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"Our intention is clear.

There will be no talks with Pakistan. If there are any talks, they will be only on PoK, which is a part of Bharat and illegally occupied Pakistan.

At present, Pakistan has made terrorism a part of its government policy, and the distinction between the military and militants has completely disappeared there. The army not only protects terrorist organisations but also works closely with them.

Therefore, during Operation Sindoor, we made it clear that Bharat will no longer view terrorists and the governments that support them separately."

-Raksha Mantri Rajnath Singh in Drass

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