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मेहदी ने मानी ISIS का ट्विटर हैंडल चलाने की बातः पुलिस

BENGALURU: Bengaluru police in the early hours of Saturday arrested Mehdi Masroor Biswas, 24, from his Jalahalli residence in North Bengaluru, for handling a pro-ISIS Twitter handle."Mehdi Masroor has confessed that he was operating the ISIS Twitter account, @ShamiWitness ," Karnataka DGP Pachau said in a press conference.Karnataka DGP Pachau further added: "His Twitter handle had become a source of information for new recruits of ISIS. He was in touch with the English speaking terrorists from the terrorist group, thereby abetting them.""Although many of his posts on Twitter were translations from Arabic tweets, but there were some some original tweets which we are investigating," the DGP said.The cops, however, said that he has not facilitated any recruitment or even ever travelled outside of India.Hailing from Gopalpur in West Bengal, he worked with an MNC here from 2012 with an annual package of Rs 5.38 lakh and had just been confirmed in March 2014.Operator of ISIS Twitter handle fears for his lifeMehdi, Bengaluru police commissioner M N Redi said, had an internet package of 60GB which he used extensively to read about Jihadist activities in the Asiatic region and post material that were pro-terror organizations.An FIR has been registered under sections 125 of IPC, 18 and 39 of Unlawful Activities Prevention Act and 66 of the IT Act.Although the cops accused him of abetting terror organizations, Reddi said they've found no evidence to link him to any terrorist organization or of him being a sympathizer."Investigation has revealed that he was translating posts in Arabic language had that's what it is," Reddi said, adding that he has done nothing about any terror activity in India.He was only interested in radical Islamic thinking and he just put out things related to the ideology. He has been a voracious reader of events in that region and updated his Twitter handle.Cops said they had no clue of him being in Bangalore and that concrete and reliable intelligence from multiple agencies is what helped them nab him.