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Bengaluru Police asks Twitter India to join probe on Mehdi's ISIS account
Bengaluru, Dec 15 (IBNS): The Bengaluru Police has asked Twitter India to aid in investigation in connection with the arrest of Bengaluru-based engineer Mehdi Masroor Biswas, who runs Twitter handle on behalf of ISIS, reports said.
The notice was sent to Twitter India after police wanted more information on Biswas' twitter handle - Shami Witness.
The handle had more than 17,000 followers and is considered one of the most influential platform to spread ISIS' messages.
"A joint investigation by the state and central agencies has revealed that Biswas wanted to radicalise Muslims abroad and that most of his tweets were sermons translating Arabic literature," CNN-IBN reported.
According to reports, he has confessed to have running the pro-Islamic State twitter account.
The Bengaluru Police was on Sunday granted five days custody of Mehdi Masroor Biswas.
Biswas was arrested on Saturday from his home in Bengaluru.
An alumnus of West Bengal Institute of Technology, Biswas was allegedly behind Twitter handle “@shamiwitness”.
He came to Bengaluru in 2011.
Sources said three different teams, including the cyber crime cell, had been formed on Friday and accordingly they launched a manhunt for him.
The security agencies had also sought records from Twitter, Facebook and Google to track Biswas down, reports said.
UK-based Channel 4 news on Thursday claimed that the man who operated the Twitter handle was one of the most influential recruiters for the Islamic State. It also said that the man was based in Bengaluru.
Meanwhile, the father of the youth in Kolkata, a retired assistant engineer of West Bengal State Electricity Board who now is a homeopath doctor, said his son is innocent and his account was hacked.
"His account was hacked. He is a studious boy all along," Mikail Biswas, father of Mehdi, said.
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