Indian doctor Mohamed Haneef, who was wrongly accused of having links with the failed United Kingdom terror plot, on Monday said that the Australian authorities might have targeted him because of his race and religion. "It might be just because I am an Asian Muslim," the 27-year-old Bangalore medico was quoted as saying on ABC radio.
Immigration and citizenship minister Chris Evans said he would not proceed with an appeal to the high court in light of advice from the solicitor-general in the case of the 27-year-old Bangalore medico, who was wrongly accused of links to the failed United Kingdom terror plot in 2007 and forced to leave the country.
"I hope he will come clean. I know my son will come clean and return. I pray for him", Qurrainthullain said.
Haneef's father Ashwaq and brother were at the airport to receive him.
"(Andrews) has led the Australian public to believe that this is the secret information, it is hardly secret information if it was put to my client in the second record of interview," Russo told another media channel.
"What I understand the Indian government said was they wanted that Haneef be dealt with justly," he said, according to The Australian report.
With Pakistan reportedly deciding to hang Indian national Sarabjit Singh, the BJP on Monday asked the government to talk to Islamabad "sternly" to save the "innocent" person from the gallows. The Opposition party had a dig at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, saying he had said that he was having "sleepless nights" when Indian doctor Mohammed Haneef was arrested in Australia last year but was silent on the Sarabjit issue.
"An Australian Federal Police officer has been sent to the home country of Gold Coast-based Dr Haneef," Federal Attorney-General Philip Ruddock said.
Both Ahmed and another Indian doctor detained in Australia, Mohammed Haneef, also from Bangalore, had worked together in Halton Hospital in Cheshire in 2005.
Haneef was arrested by Australian police after a tip-off from their British counterparts about his possible connection to bomb attacks in London and Glasgow.
Police union president Gary Wilkinson said Payne's decision was 'a disgrace' and claimed she was among recently appointed magistrates believed to be 'totally anti-police,' according to The Australian daily report on Tuesday.
The British Airways flight with Sabeel on board landed at the Bangalore airport at 0345 hours IST. The doctor, who was sporting a beard, was immediately whisked away by sleuths of the Intelligence Bureau through the VIP exit in a Santro car. Sabeel's mother Dr Zakia Ahmed was in the car with him.
India is struggling with the second wave of coronavirus infection and hospitals in several states are reeling under a shortage of medical oxygen and beds in view of a rising number of COVID-19 cases.
The case pertains to hatching a conspiracy, both on physical as well as cyberspace, for undertaking violent terrorist acts in Jammu and Kashmir and other parts of the country, by cadres of Pakistan-based proscribed terrorist organisations.
Police spokesman Hassan Haneef confirmed that the former president has been arrested after the Hulhumale magistrate court ordered the police to produce him before it. He was arrested from the residence of former housing minister Mohamed Aslam, who is a native of that island
Five persons, including founder of local terror group Tehreek-Ghalba-e-Islam Viqaruddin Ahmed, were on Tuesday killed in an encounter with the police in Telangana's Warangal district.
Australian Federal Police Commissioner Mick Keelty on Wednesday said Mohammed Asif Ali was released without any charge after being questioned.
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