The police claimed that Mouinuddin has admitted that he was going to join the ISIS along with his girlfriend. The police claimed that Mouinuddin has admitted that he was going to join the ISIS along with his girlfriend.

An engineer from Hyderabad was arrested on his way to Syria to join the Islamic States of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the Telangana police said on Friday.

Security agencies had detained the man in his twenties -- Salman Mouinuddin, who lived with his parents in Asif Nagar area -- at the Hyderabad airport on Thursday when he was going to fly to Dubai for his onward journey to Syria via Turkey.

According to police sources, Moinuddin has an MS degree from Houston and he is married. He was going to join the ISIS along with his British girlfriend Nicky Joseph, who had converted to Islam and is presently known as Ayesha.

The police claimed that Mouinuddin has admitted that he was going to join the ISIS along with his girlfriend.

The police were expected to produce him before a magistrate later ion the day and seek his remand for interrogation.

The Maharashtra police had in September 2014 arrested three youths from Kalyan on suspicion of joining the ISIS on their return from Syria.