Karnataka police find out that some people were interacting with Mehdi on Twitter, therefore, they were checking people from within the country who had acted in response to the tweets and re-tweets of the alleged pro-Islamic State (IS) Twitter handle, Mehdi Masroor Biswas.
Police as of now had not come across any follower of Mehdi’s Twitter handle @shamiwitness in Bengaluru.
The source said, “The biggest challenge is to decipher the direct messages, which is yet to be received from the people concerned.”
“It is a tedious process and will take time. Most of the tweets are in Arabic and will have to be translated before being analysed,”
Mehdi has e-mail ID’s in different names and they are being studied and he was rebuffing to give the passwords of his other e-mail IDs, saying he had forgotten them, top police source said.
“We have applied for various documents, which we’ll get in a day or two. Then we’ll decide the next course of action.”Mehdi’s lawyer Jaffer Shah said.