Salman Moinuddin was stopped by security agencies at the airport yesterday.
A Hyderabad-based engineer who has studied in the US was arrested today by the Telangana police for suspected links with the terror group Islamic State.
22-year-old Salman Moinuddin, a resident of Asif Nagar in Hyderabad, was stopped by security agencies at the airport yesterday when he was about to take a flight to Dubai.
Moinuddin, who is married, has a Master of Science degree from Houston. The police say he has confessed that he was going to join the Islamic State.
In Dubai, Moinuddin allegedly planned to join his girlfriend, British national Nicky Joseph, and travel to Syria via Turkey.
Nicky Joseph is believed to be married to a UK-based doctor and allegedly goes by the name Ayesha after converting to Islam recently.
Sources say security agencies zeroed in on Moinuddin through his social media activities.
In December, the police arrested Mehdi Masoor Biswas, a 24-year-old food company executive from Bangalore, saying he was running the pro-Islamic State Twitter handle @ShamiWitness that had over 17,000 followers, including hundreds of foreign fighters for the group.
The arrest reinforced fears that IS militants are attempting to recruit radicalised Muslim youngsters online.