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Bengaluru man who operates ISIS Twitter handle may have fled the city, cops say

NEW DELHI: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) had prior information that a man from Bengaluru was running the ISIS Twitter handle and was in the process of getting more details.Arib Majeed , an ISIS recruit from Kalyan who was deported from Turkey, had told NIA about the Twitter handle during interrogation.Arib had also told NIA that he had heard the Twitter handle was being run by a man from Bengaluru.During investigation, NIA stumbled upon an identity, Mehdi Mehboob Biswas , who was purportedly running the handle.However, NIA is still not sure if this identity is correct and the man is actually from Bengaluru.Sources in the security establishment said the person concerned may well have been posting from elsewhere in the world, while using Bengaluru as a front to mask his actual location."In the wake of the Channel 4 report, our agencies have run the check and found that the Twitter handle ‘ShamiWitness’ was operated under the name Mehdi Mehboob Biswas, with Bangalore showing up as his location. But it is possible that the person is not only using a pseudonym but also masking location of the server so as to show the hate messages being posted from Bangalore," said a home ministry official.According to the official, the NIA will investigate the ISIS’ indoctrination and motivation activities on the net, as part of its probe into the FIR registered by it following Majeed’s return to India.Kalyan youth who fought for ISIS returns, being grilledI cleaned toilets while in ISIS, Kalyan youth Areeb Majeed tells NIANIA is in touch with service providers in US to trace the origin of the Twitter handle.Meanwhile, central intelligence agencies are in Bengaluru after a British News Channel tracked down, the operator of one of ISIS's most successful twitter account, @ShamiWitness, to the city.The man identified as Mehdi, works with a multinational advertisement company in the city and lives with his family here.Executive from Bengaluru operates ISIS Twitter handleTwitter's response to Bengaluru executive operating ISIS handleThis particular Twitter handle went on air last year and since has been posting photos and videos of ISIS aggression. He even posted ISIS updates from the front lines."If I had a chance, I would have left everything and joined them. But my family needs me here," he told the channel. He also said he is in contact with British jihadis and announced he believes in beheading.Meanwhile, a manhunt was launched by Bengaluru police's Central Crime Branch (CCB) team on Friday morning, however, officers said they couldn't get any lead in the case so far.Cops are still not sure of the name of the suspect, his residence or where he was working.