{"id":119766,"date":"2017-03-18T10:06:03","date_gmt":"2017-03-18T04:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org\/?p=52076"},"modified":"2017-03-18T10:06:03","modified_gmt":"2017-03-18T04:36:03","slug":"taj-mahal-security-beefed-reported-threat-fpj-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=119766","title":{"rendered":"Taj Mahal security beefed up after reported threat from IS | FPJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Lucknow :\u00a0<\/strong>Security has been enhanced at the Taj Mahal in the wake of a media report of a threat to the 17th century monument from terror outfit ISIS.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA link has been circulated in which it is claimed that Taj Mahal is on the target of ISIS. We are probing it. However, security has been enhanced in and around the monument,\u201d Additional Director General, Law and Order, Daljeet Singh Chowdhury told PTI here.<\/p>\n<p>The security was jacked up after a website showed graphics of the Taj Mahal with a terrorist standing alongside holding what looked like a weapon.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, a pro-ISIS media group published a graphic depicting Taj Mahal, one of the wonders of the world, as a possible target of the terror outfit.<\/p>\n<p>The graphic was released almost a week after security agencies carried out combing operation in Uttar Pradesh in which one accused \u2013 Saifullah \u2013 was killed and six others were arrested.<\/p>\n<p>It was reported that Saifullah was brainwashed by ISIS through the online medium and had carried out an attack on a train in Bhopal.<\/p>\n<p>The graphic features an ISIS fighter wearing combat fatigues and black headgear armed with an assault rifle standing near the Taj Mahal.<\/p>\n<p>It also features three inset pictures \u2013 an image of Taj Mahal within crosshairs with the words \u201cNew Target\u201d below it, a van with the Arabic text \u201cAgra istishhadi\u201d (Agra martyrdom-seeker) written in English, implying the threat of a suicide bombing, and an image of a \u201cbomb\u201d.\u2013PTI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lucknow :\u00a0Security has been enhanced at the Taj Mahal in the wake of a media report of a threat to the 17th century monument from terror outfit ISIS. \u201cA link has been circulated in which it is claimed that Taj Mahal is on the target of ISIS. We are probing it. However, security has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119766"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}