Archive · 18 Nov 2025
Resurgent Domestic Terrorism in India: New Wave, Global Links
India is seeing a new kind of domestic terrorism.
These terrorists are regular people like doctors and engineers who got radicalized online.
They work in secret groups and use modern technology to plan attacks.
They might get help from other countries and global terrorist groups.
Security agencies are trying to stop them, but there might be more groups we don't know about yet.
Indian security agencies are facing a new wave of domestic terrorism with links to global jihadist groups and neighboring countries.
The new terrorists are professionals hiding in plain sight, self-radicalized online, and operating in decentralized sleeper cells.
They use advanced technologies for communication and planning, and have established transnational linkages both online and offline.
Security agencies have disrupted several modules since the Delhi blast, but concerns remain about undetected groups and infiltration of professional spaces.
The threat is pan-India, with modules operating in multiple states and evidence of international hideouts.
- Who
- Self-radicalized professionals, sleeper cells, global jihadist groups, and neighboring countries
- What
- Resurgence of domestic terrorism with global links
- When
- 2025, following a period of relative calm since the crackdown on Indian Mujahideen in 2011
- Where
- India, with a pan-India footprint and international hideouts
- Why
- Ideological alignment with global jihadist groups, strategic alliances, and common enemies
Indian Security Agencies
New Domestic Terrorist Modules
Detection and Disruption
Indian Security Agencies
Security agencies have disrupted several modules and arrested key operatives since the Delhi blast.
New Domestic Terrorist Modules
Despite efforts, some modules remain undetected and continue to pose a threat.
Infiltration of Professional Spaces
Indian Security Agencies
Universities and professional spaces have been infiltrated by terrorist modules, raising concerns about radicalization and recruitment.
New Domestic Terrorist Modules
Terrorist modules exploit the trust and access granted to professionals in mainstream society to plan and execute attacks.
- Previous Domestic Terror Group
- Indian Mujahideen (dismantled in 2011)
- New Terrorist Profile
- Professionals, self-radicalized online, decentralized sleeper cells
- Communication Methods
- Encrypted apps, dark web, dead-drop emails
- Funding Sources
- Hawala-based micro-transfers, online donations, cryptocurrency
- Transnational Linkages
- Online and offline connections with global jihadist groups and neighboring countries
- Potential Threat
- Multi-city attacks, suicide VBIEDs, drone experiments, rocket prototypes
