Bangalore Police probing report of executive running pro-IS Twitter handle

Bangalore Police on Friday said that they were looking into media reports revealing that a Bangalore-based executive was operating a pro-IS (Islamic State) Twitter account called @ShamiWitness.

"We have taken note of this information and our crime branch is on this job to look into it and see its veracity and what needs to be done," Bangalore Police Commissioner M. N. Reddi told reporters here.

When asked whether any sleeper cells were operating in the city, Reddi said, "We get many inputs about sleeper cells. These may or may not be true, but we take all of them seriously and go to the bottom of it."

An investigation by Britain's Channel 4 News has stated that the pro-IS Twitter account @ShamiWitness, which reportedly had a massive 17,700 followers, was being run by an executive based in Bangalore.

The report also claims that the executive was ready to join the Islamic State himself if his family had not been dependant on him.

As per reports, the social networking account had also tweeted US aid worker Peter Kassig's execution and other videos, moments after they appeared on the internet.