Salman Mohiuddin (32) who was arrested from Rajiv Gandhi International Airport, Hyderabad said that he wanted to join IS to wage a war against India.

“I had no livelihood here (in Hyderabad), and used to spend hours together over Internet chatting with ‘Daula Newsroom’ group members. I felt that western forces are plundering Muslim property and Muslims are facing pitiable situation all over the world and the solution is to establish Islamic State, where Sharia law can be implemented,” electronics engineer Salman Mohiuddin told his interrogators after being arrested from Hyderabad’s international airport on January 16 this year.

Salman, son of a retired Chief Engineer of the Andhra Pradesh Housing Board, Mohiuddin completed his B.Tech from Anwar-ul-Uloom College of Engineering and Technology in Vikarabad. In 2007, he got married and had two children, a daughter and a son. In 2010, he left for US to do MS from Texas Southern University in Houston. Then he worked for two years as Desktop Support Engineer at Oilfield Service Company Baker Hughes in Texas.

“While I was in Texas (2011), I came in contact with a lady, Nicky Joseph (a British national), staying in Dubai through YouTube. I came to know that she converted to Islam from Christianity. I learnt that she married one doctor and intended to marry a Muslim. I proposed her to marry. she agreed. I and Nicky Joseph alias Ayesha decided to join ISIS to fight in favour of ISIS through illegal border crossing of Turkey,” Mohiuddin told interrogators.

However, Afsha Jabeen, an Indian-origin and a mother of three, after the arrest initially denied any plan of accompanying Salman to Syria but later confessed that she pretended to be Nicky Joseph and told Salman that she wanted to marry a Muslim man.