India bans ISIS
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh said in the Parliament: "We are monitoring the activities of ISIS across the world. We are actively considering additional steps needed to counter the threat."
"Online campaign for the ISIS is a serious issue. There is a clear need to strengthen our cyber monitoring mechanism," he said.
The Bengaluru Police was on Sunday granted five days custody of Mehdi Masroor Biswas.
Biswas was arrested on Saturday from his home in Bengaluru.
UK-based Channel 4 news on Thursday claimed that the man who operated the Twitter handle was one of the most influential recruiters for the Islamic State. It also said that the man was based in Bengaluru.
Meanwhile, the father of the youth in Kolkata, a retired assistant engineer of West Bengal State Electricity Board who now is a homeopath doctor, said his son is innocent and his account was hacked.
"His account was hacked. He is a studious boy all along," Mikail Biswas, father of Mehdi, said.
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