Bengaluru: Mehdi Masroor Biswas, the handler of pro-ISIS Twitter account had showed no sign of regret in his activities and had claimed himself as a ‘soldier’ of the group. Mehdi Biswas had been arrested by Bengaluru after which Home Minister #RajnathSingh had sought to reassure the nation by saying that the Islamic State had ‘negligible’ following in India.
According to a report published in Times of India, Mehdi Biswas, chose to call him a ‘#messenger’ for the ISIS. #TOI says that while he was being escorted to the court in #Bengaluru, Biswas told an advocate, “I’m a soldier and messenger. I don’t regret what I’ve done.”
The Central Crime Branch sources said to media, “We need to take Mehdi to other states — particularly, #Bihar, #WestBengal and #Maharashtra. We’ve come across links between Mehdi and some persons staying in these states.”
Other media reports claimed that there is no direct link between Biswas and ISIS could be established yet, they are looking at the possibility of him being in touch with an Indian-origin IS militant in #Syria.
Police said to media, “Apart from putting out nearly 1.2 lakh #tweets, #Masroor also exchanged around 11,000 direct messages through his Twitter account and one of the persons with whom he communicated is suspected to be an Indian youth in Syria, recruited earlier this year along with three others from Maharashtra.”
Some reports suggest that these messages contained acronyms that only Biswas can decipher for the police.
Reports had revealed that Biswas had several e-mail ids but he refuses to give them to the police by saying that he had forget the passwords of ids and details.
It said, “The report the investigators submitted to the court on Thursday suggested that Mehdi was not co-operating with the probe as he claimed to have forgotten the passwords to the email accounts. An official said it was important as Mehdi may have used them to contact other suspected IS ideologues and fighters.”
Bureau Report
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