00:00Listen closely ladies and gentlemen, it is a life of social media, but it's also a life where criminals and
00:06gangsters, even across the border, are tracking who needs help in India, who can be recruited for jobs and other
00:14issues, but in turn work for them and get involved in criminal activities.
00:18And all of this is happening on Instagram. You heard it right. A lot of Gen Z or youth, so
00:23to say, is on social media sites like Instagram.
00:26India Today's Arvind Oja, who heads the Crime Bureau, spoke to not one, but multiple youngsters who were approached by
00:34Pakistani terrorist Shahzad Bhatti's gang, on Instagram especially.
00:38And they told him that there was money offered to assassinate someone, there was money offered to travel to Pakistan,
00:45terror group even offered a fake passport, that they were luring him with money in exchange of delivering a person.
00:53It's all kind of excuses that were worked out.
00:56In August, remember, Minister Amit Chha had warned about the terror network, detailing how agencies have cracked down on the
01:01gang.
01:01More than 700 operatives allegedly have been arrested. Three operators of the same gang were also arrested by the UPATS.
01:08Let's listen in. Remember, not one, but at least two to three who have spoken to Arvind Oja.
01:42How did you contact me?
01:43foreign
01:57foreign
01:58foreign
02:06foreign
02:07foreign
02:09I said, I am from Pakistan, my name is Shaijad Patti, and I said, okay.
02:16I said, I will help you, but you have to work for me.
02:20I said, I didn't do anything, so I said, let's go, I won't do anything.
02:26Then, after 2-3 days, I said, hello.
02:31I asked, brother, I have to pay for your work.
02:34Then, after 2-3 days, I will help you, so I will help you.
02:38As I do 2-3 days, I will help you.
02:40I will help you to ask the agency for me.
02:42They also ask me what I have to talk about, what I have not.
02:47Then, after I told them, I told them.
02:49I told them, I saw this.
02:52So, he said that this person is very young people.
02:57They are also young people.
02:58They are also young people.
03:01Those are young people.
03:06So, I told them, I said, I have to do this.
03:11I am a kind of...
03:17Thank you very much.
03:42This is scary and this is why there needs to be supervision as well and perhaps together as a society
03:47as much as social media and their head also to know what can be done in cases like this.
03:52Arvind Hoja is joining me here in India Today Newsroom.
03:55Arvind, do you think you have pictures, videos, everything is good and enjoying life?
04:01Why will gangsters approach youths and if anyone is thinking about it, is it that easy that you can recruit
04:07youth for criminal activities?
04:08Just gangsters not, but the terrorist in Pakistan is also recruiting on Instagram and India Today has a couple of
04:16people who had 3,000,000 followers.
04:19He was a social media influencer and he was making content, so first of all, he approached him on Instagram
04:26and then he sent him a WhatsApp, a signal and then he sent him a brainwash.
04:31He was making content, so he was making content.
04:37The opposite group was made by Pakistan and when this task was completed, the first agency was arrested.
04:46Also, the other guy who was in Punjab, we had talked about it and he recruited him on Instagram and
04:52he recruited him on Instagram.
04:54What is it for? What do you want to recruit? What do you want to do?
04:56It's different from the brainwash.
04:58Like someone gives money in the mosques, they say they make money in Pakistan, they make money in Pakistan, they
05:02give money in Gurdwara.
05:04The people of Sidhu Musa had a sympathy for him, so they would change the people of Sidhu Musa.
05:08So it's different from the brainwash.
05:10So there is also a lot of research.
05:12There is also a lot of research.
05:13And after doing the brainwash, there is always a lot of money.
05:16We will settle in Nepal, Pakistan and we will settle in Nepal and we will settle in Pakistan and there
05:19are small tasks.
05:20Now, recently, there are 3 such terror attacks that were recruited by social media, which was recruited by the BSF
05:28headquarter.
05:30In Punjab, the target of the police is the most serious concern, which was recruited by social media.
05:46In Punjab, there are many incidents in Punjab. This is a great expose, Arvind. Thank you for tracking down these
05:52youngsters.
05:53So stay cautious. Don't just fall for the lure of money or opportunities on Instagram.
05:57It could be a network or a nexus you really don't want to get involved in.
06:01And we'll keep tracking all the reality checks on this.
