Indian Police Arrest Man Suspected Of Running Pro-Isis Twitter Account

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A man suspected of running a pro-ISIS Twitter account was arrested Saturday, the police chief for Bangalore said.

Mehdi Masroor Biswas reportedly confessed to operating the ISIS-friendly @ShamiWitness account before it was recently shut down.

The 24-year-old was charged with waging a war or abetting the waging of war against powers friendly to India, police commissioner M.N. Reddi said.

He is also charged under prevention of unlawful activities and anti-cyber-crime laws, Reddi said.

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Biswas is expected to appear in court in 24 hours. If convicted, he could face up to 10 years in prison, according to the police official.

An electrical engineer by training, Biswas was working as an executive in a food company until this week, Reddi said. He described Biswas as an ISIS "sympathizer."

However, Reddi told CNN that Biswas' efforts on Twitter had been of greater significance outside India than within his native country.

"The effect of what he was doing, the impact of what he was doing was really not about India, nor was he provoking or promoting people within India to align or sympathize with ISIS," he said.

"It was more about how he could manage to anglicize the conversations of ISIS and that led to a huge impact from what I can understand in the European world, particularly in the UK. Therefore the interest was very high in the UK to track and trace him and he incidentally happened to be in Bangalore."