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‘Media report on Haneef incorrect’

P. S. Suryanarayana

SINGAPORE: Australian authorities on Sunday indicated that Indian doctor Mohammed Haneef was not accused of plotting a terrorist attack in Queensland.

Dr. Haneef is now lodged in a solitary cell in Queensland, pending a Federal Court hearing on his appeal against the revocation of his work visa and also a committal hearing on charges linking him to the recent “terror plots” in Britain. Queensland Premier Peter Beattie said: “On all the briefings I have been given [on the Haneef case], there has not been any threat to any individual or any property in this State.”

Mr. Beattie was commenting in the context of a media report that the Australian Federal Police (AFP) were examining whether Dr. Haneef was involved in a terror plot in Australia itself. He was alleged to have taken photographs of some landmark buildings on the Gold Coast of Queensland.

AFP Commissioner Mick Keelty, in a statement, dismissed the media story on Dr. Haneef as inaccurate. Dr. Haneef’s lawyer Peter Russo said: “No allegation of this kind published on Sunday has ever been put to my client.”

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