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BENGALURU: A man whose identity top police officials are refusing to reveal immediately has been detained in Bengaluru in connection with running a pro-ISIS Twitter handle.The detention comes even as unanswered questions over who really operated the Twitter handle - @ShamiWitness - are renting the air.Until late on Friday, the police maintained that they hadn't made any serious headway with the investigation and the city commissioner M N Reddi had said his team was on the job.Early on Saturday, three senior IPS officers confirmed to TOI that a man has been picked up in connection with the case.One source went ahead to say that it is an arrest but refused to name the man.Two days after the news broke that a man from Bengaluru- Mehdi - was behind running the pro-ISIS Twitter handle, confusion over whether he really is the guy continues to prevail.When asked about the detention, city commissioner M N Reddi said, "we'll give out details in a press conference at 1pm."He neither confirmed or denied the detention of the man.The Twitter account @ShamiWitness is no longer operational. It provided graphic accounts of the ISIS war, based on information provided to him by his online followers.The account operator is reported to have claimed that he was in regular contact with British jihadis before they left to join the ISIS and after they arrived.He had been encouraging ISIS fighters through his tweets, and had posted the video of US aid worker Peter Kassig's beheading five times, Channel 4 said, adding he had tweeted them "within minutes of it being uploaded to the internet".A report said the man behind @ShamiWitness posted thousands of updates to his Twitter account every month, usually from his mobile phone. He also reportedly tweeted in November that "May Allah guide, protect, strengthen and expand the Islamic State. Islamic State brought peace, autonomy, zero corruption, low crime rate."