Police top brass receive threatening tweets after Mehdi arrest

Bangalore Mirror

Bangalore, 14 Dec 2014: In the aftermath of the arrest of 24-year-old Mehdi who was apprehended by the city police around midnight on Saturday for his alleged involvement of abetting terror activities related to banned extremist outfit ISIS, top brass of the city police have been receiving threatening tweets from users who are outraged by the arrest.

 

Joint commissioner of police (crime) Hemanth Nimbalkar and deputy commissioner of police (crime) Abhishek Goyal who tweeted about the arrest on Saturday afternoon have received threats from unknown people along the lines of "We will not leave our brothers in your hand. Revenge is coming. Wait for our reaction."

 

Speaking to Bangalore Mirror, DCP (Crime) Abhishek Goyal said, "I tweeted about Mehdi’s arrest in the afternoon, and as of 11:30 pm, it has been retweeted about 500 times. I’ve gotten nearly 200 replies, and I’m yet to go through each one. There appear to be many such threatening messages. We are contemplating what action to take."

 

While some of the threats seem to have their origins from the Middle East, sources maintained the locations could be false and the IP addresses could be faked to throw police officials off track. A detailed probe is underway.