Aman Tandel, one of the four youngsters who left their Kalyan homes in May 2014 to fight alongside the Islamic State in Iraq, has been killed in an air strike. Relatives and friends had started gathering at Tandel’s home, on Sunday, November 27 after the family received a call on Saturday telling them about Aman Tandel’s demise.

Earlier, when reports had surfaced in the media about the police stating that a number of boys from the city had left home to join the ISIS or Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, it had become difficult for the families of the jihadis to continue living at the same address because of the stigma. Some of them had shifted home seeking relative anonymity.