By AFP on December 13, 2014
Indian police on Saturday arrested a 24-year-old executive believed to be the handler of an influential Twitter account supporting the Islamic State group, officials said.
Mehdi Masroor Biswas, employed with an Indian food conglomerate in the southern city of Bangalore, is alleged to be the handler of the Twitter account @ShamiWitness.
The account had 17,700 followers, including many foreign fighters, until it was shut down following a report by Britain's Channel 4 News on Thursday.
Tweets from@ShamiWitness contained jihadist propaganda as well as information for would-be recruits and messages praising fallen fighters as martyrs.
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