India, Dec. 11 -- The ministry of electronics and information technology (MeitY) blocked 9,845 URLs between January and October this year under Section 69A of the Information Technology Act, minister of state for home affairs Nityanand Rai told the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday.

Rai, who was responding to a question by Congress MP Rajeev Shukla on online radicalisation, said that these blocked URLs include links related to radical content.

Rai said that websites and accounts that were involved in "communal and anti-India propaganda affecting sovereignty and integrity of India" are identified and sent to MeitY to block.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) is presently investigating 67 cases related to online radicalisation in which 325 a...