Terror trail leads Aussie cops to Bangalore

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New Delhi: In the wake of the alleged involvement of three youths from Bangalore in the foiled UK terror plot, the Karnataka government is holding a high-level meeting on Tuesday to take stock of the situation.

Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy will chair the meeting of senior police and home department officials.

It is believed that they would debate vital leads gathered by police and intelligence wings on the links of suspects Kafeel Ahmed, his brother Dr Sabeel Ahmed and cousin Dr Mohammed Haneef, who is in detention in Brisbane.

On Monday, the Chief Minister had said that the intelligence wings have gathered several pieces of information and that these cannot be disclosed now.

High-capacity computer hard disks were seized from the Bangalore residence of Kafeel and Sabeel Ahmed. The disk, which contains huge volumes of data, has been sent to a Thiruvananthapuram-based research centre for decoding.

Meanwhile, Australia has sent a senior police official to India as part of its probe into the case of Mohamed Haneef as investigators said they might need to hold the Indian doctor for a longer time to glean through the evidence gathered in a series of raids.

However, there is growing public criticism in Australia for keeping Haneef in detention for such a long period. Apparently this is the longest period that a suspect has been held in detention in Australian history.

The Australian Police on Monday had applied for four days extension of Haneef's detention but the Magistrate granted only two days, and asked the police to file a report on the charges first.

Meanwhile, Haneef’s lawyer has said that he may launch an appeal against the continued detention of his client.

The detained Indian doctor's brother Shoaib also hit out at Australian investigators for holding Haneef without charge and for raising suspicions about his financial transfer of funds.

He said Haneef remitted money from his Queensland Health salary to his family in India to help meet expenses.

(With agency inputs)