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Pray for me, Haneef tells wife

Bangalore Bureau

The one-minute conversation came after several requests by the family

BANGALORE: Even as reports said Australian authorities were extending the detention of Mohammed Haneef for five more days, his wife Firdaus Arshiya here was allowed to speak to him on the phone on Wednesday morning.

“Main theek hoon. Aap log aapna khayal rakho. Duwa karo…” (I am all right. You people take care and pray for me) is all that Dr. Haneef said, according to his brother Mohammed Shuaib.

The one-minute conversation came after several requests by the family to the Indian Deputy High Commissioner and the Australian Federal Police.

Dr. Haneef has been detained in Brisbane in connection with the failed Glasgow bombings.

“My bhabi spoke to him… and he told her that he is all right. But we are really worried over his extended detention without any charges and evidence. Our lawyer Peter Russo is doing his best to get my brother released,” Mr. Shuaib told The Hindu.

Disturbed at reports that his brother was being denied natural justice by the Australian police, Mr. Shuaib said they were hoping for the best.

The police have for the third time applied for more time to detain Dr. Haneef for interrogation.

No significant clue

The investigation by the Bangalore police into the local angle to the Glasgow terror attack has not thrown up any significant clue that could lead them to any group or individual connected with acts of terrorism here as well as abroad.

A top police official, who provided this information to The Hindu, said the police were still not aware of the contents of the hard disk seized from the Bangalore residence of Kafeel Ahmed, who drove a jeep into the Glasgow airport on June 30.

The official said experts of C-DAC, who had come here from Thiruvananthapuram, to help decipher the data from the hard disk, went back. The C-DAC scientists had brought Cyber Check Version 3.0 software tools developed by the Resource Centre for Cyber Forensics at their Centre for cyber forensics. C-DAC’s lab brings together security and intelligence agencies and computer researchers.

The parents of Kafeel, Dr. Zakia Ahmed and Dr. Maqbool Ahmed, would be questioned again.

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