Cops to move IS Twitter account handler to secure location

December 14, 2014 15:15

After Bengaluru's Deputy Commissioner of Police, Crime, Abhishek Goyal received threats seeking revenge for arresting Mehdi Masroor Biswas, the alleged handler of the most influential pro-Islamic State Twitter account, cops have decided to move him to an undisclosed location as a security measure.

Biswas was arrested on Saturday from his apartment in Bengaluru and has been remanded to police custody for five days.

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