Karnataka Director General of Police L Pachau has said that arrested ISIS Twitter account handler Mehdi Masroor Biswas was close to English speaking terrorists of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. Addressing a press conference in Bengaluru Saturday, he said Mehdi Masroor Biswas has confessed that he was operating the ISIS Twitter account for last many years. Masroor Biswas, hailing from West Bengal, was arrested in Bengaluru Saturday. Mr Pachau said, Mehdi is an engineer with a Bengaluru-based multinational company.

Mr Pachau said, the accused had more than 17 thousand followers on Twitter and used to ferociously tweet by aggregating information and closely watching developments of the region.

Bengaluru Police Commissioner MN Reddi said, it is being investigated whether the accused had any link with ISIS adding that interrogation reveals that he was majorly in the virtual world.