Kafeel's family spurns media, refuses to react

KEEPING MUM: The Bangalore residence of Kafeel and Sabeel Ahmad remained silent with no press and media allowed into the locked gates.

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Bangalore: Kafeel Ahmed’s family in Bangalore spurned media-persons while refusing to show any reaction to his death at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary hospital on Friday.

The Bangalore residence of Kafeel and Sabeel Ahmed remained silent with no press and media allowed into the locked gates. The 27-year-old engineer was not going to survive, the doctors had told the family as well as the UK investigating authorities a week earlier.

The family, reportedly, is waiting for a word from Sabeel’s lawyer in UK who will clarify whether Kafeel’s dead-body will be handed over to his family in India or be cremated in UK.

Since earlier, Kafeel, Sabeel’s parents had maintained they would not go to the UK, as they did not want to see their son on the death-bed.

A friend of his, who refused to be named, had earlier given his account to CNN-IBN, telling that the 27-year-old mechanical engineer was “shy, warm and reticent” and in fact someone who could not identify with terrorism at all.

“Kafeel was a very nice boy. As much as I have known him, he was always a cheerful smiling character. He was a mechanical engineer, had strong grounding on this knowledge and I used to take help from him. Academically he was very, very good,” he said.

Kafeel’s brother Sabeel Ahmad is also in police custody in Britain. He has been charged with knowing every detail of the plot but not informing the police.

Sabeel was sent a text message by Kafeel shortly after the car-bombs were planted in London. The message contained the password for an internet email account.

Inside the email account was a folder containing Kafeel's last will and testament and instructions on what to say to the police.

The instructions told Sabeel to say Kafeel was working on a project about global warming and was on holiday in Iceland and keep saying that to anyone who asked about him.

The Bangalore police is meanwhile trying to establish a connection between the jihadi material recovered from Sabeel Ahmed’s Bangalore residence, with any of the local extremists groups.