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DNA test confirms Kafeel drove Glasgow jeep

K.V. Subramanya

BANGALORE: DNA testing by the U.K. authorities has confirmed that the man who drove the flaming jeep into the Glasgow Airport terminal on June 30 was indeed Kafeel Ahmed from Bangalore, the elder brother of Sabeel Ahmed who has also been detained in Liverpool for his suspected role in the attack.

Highly placed sources in the police here told The Hindu on Saturday that the DNA samples of Kafeel, who has suffered serious burns, had matched that of Sabeel.

(According to PTI, the parents of Kafeel Ahmed told the police on Saturday that it was their son who drove a jeep into Glasgow airport.

“They said it was Kafeel,” an officer of the police investigation team said. City Police Commissioner N. Achutha Rao had earlier said the parents had not made such an admission anytime during questioning.)

Central intelligence agencies on Friday communicated this information to the Bangalore police, who are investigating the Karnataka angle to the London-Glasgow terror plot, the sources said.

According to information available with the police here, Kafeel had left his bag and baggage at Sabeel’s house a few days before the attack, and this apparently led to the latter’s detention.

The Bangalore police have detained for interrogation a “well educated” local youth with whom the two brothers had close contacts. Kafeel and Sabeel had met the youth several times during their recent visit to Bangalore, the sources said.

Officials of the Cyber Crime Police Station were deciphering information from the hard disk of a computer that was seized from Kafeel’s house.

Kafeel had sent several e-mails from the computer during their stay here, it has been revealed.

On suspicion that Kafeel had pumped in huge sums from the U.K. to his family here, the police are probing the financial details of his parents, Dr. Zakia Ahmed and Dr. Maqbool Ahmed, who had worked in West Asia for nearly 15 years.

The police are making similar enquiries in regard to the family of another Bangalore doctor, Mohammed Haneef, who continued to remain detained in Brisbane, the sources said.

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