Mateen Hafeez | TNN
The state ATS is likely to form a counselling cell to help the youths who went for terror training abroad and returned with a change of heart.
Six youngsters, including two professionals, have approached the ATS in the past two months saying they did not want to be part of a terror outfit. “We need to counsel such boys who have been indoctrinated and shown wrong path. I have appointed a liaison officer who is in touch with the boys. We are helping them continue their studies. That they realized what they chose was wrong is our success. We are identifying more and more people attached to terror outfits and neutralizing them,” said ATS chief Rakesh Maria. He assured only the ATS chief and the liaison officer would know such boys’ identities. An officer added the misguided youngsters needed to be counselled properly.
The ATS is now
conducting a deindoctrination programme. “We are trying to deradicalize
those on the periphery of a terror network,” said Maria. “We have
started working towards a good counselling system, including a
de-indoctrination programme, and hope to get results in the next few
years.” He added those institaging youngsters to choose the terror path,
would not be spared.
The Times of India, May 9, 2012
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