IS agent wanted to make chief Baghdadi 'Person of the year' by rigging Time's poll

NEW DELHI: Mohammad Sirajuddin, the 33-year-old former Indian Oil Corporation assistant manager who was arrested in December last year for joining Islamic State and luring others to be part of it, wanted to hack the website of Time magazine in an attempt to make IS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ' Person of the Year'.

It is a title which has been bestowed to influencers like Mahatma Gandhi, Adolf Hitler, US presidents, Pope, Joseph Stalin, Mark Zuckerberg and others by the international weekly.

Sirajuddin, during his discussions with IS members on WhatsApp, Facebook and Telegram groups, asked them to somehow hack the Time magazine's website so that the online poll and database could be fudged and Baghdadi could be projected as the Time “Person of the Year."

NIA filed a chargesheet against him on Saturday for actively spreading the philosophy of IS online and asking others to join and tra vel with him.

An MTech from prestigious National Institute of Technolgy (NIT) Surathkal, Karnataka, Sirajuddin is also believed to have coined the term `e-Mujahida', pro bably because of his fascination for recruiting women and sending them to Iraq and Syria. He was working as assistant manager in Jaipur office of Indian Oil before his arrest on December 10 last year.

His fascination with IS was not limited to himself.He even wanted to take his wife, his two-year-old son, his unborn child and his parents to Iraq and Syria.