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CFSL yet to give report on disks

BANGALORE: The police are yet to receive a report from the Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL), Hyderabad, on the contents of the two hard disks that were seized from the Bangalore residence of Kafeel Ahmed, Commissioner of Police Neelam Achuta Rao said on Saturday. Kafeel Ahmed, who died on Thursday, was one of the two men who drove a blazing Jeep into Glasgow airport in a failed terror plot.

Mr. Rao, who initially denied the existence of a second disk, told presspersons here that the second hard disk was seized a few days after the police confiscated a high-capacity disk from Kafeel’s Banashankari house.

Asked whether the second disk belonged to Kafeel or his younger brother Sabeel Ahmed, a doctor arrested by the U.K. police, the Commissioner said the CFSL report would indicate who had been using the disk.

Mr. Rao said the police would be able to carry out their investigation into the Bangalore angle to Glasgow attack in a better manner if they got more information about what had come out of the inquiry being conducted by the U.K. and Australian police. Though the two police forces were not in touch with the Bangalore police, information had been reaching them through the proper channels, Mr. Rao said to a query whether the U.K. and Australian police were forthcoming about the details of their investigations.

The Commissioner refused to comment on several questions concerning the investigations, including that on the activities of Discover Islam, a Bangalore-based forum that was reportedly used by Kafeel to propagate fundamentalist and anti-West ideas. Mr. Rao said they had so far not received official information about Kafeel’s death. Also, there was no official word on the identity of the man who suffered burns in the Glasgow attack and died on Thursday. The police had not spoken to Kafeel’s family in this regard, he said. Asked whether his family had identified Kafeel from the video footage of the attack, Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) Gopal Hosur said Kafeel’s mother had earlier told the police that “he looks like my son”. Mr. Rao said they had no plans to interrogate Kafeel’s cousin, Mohammed Haneef, who has returned to Bangalore after the Australian police dropped terrorism charges against him. He categorically stated the Bangalore police had not prepared a dossier on Dr. Haneef. A section of the Australian media had reported that a dossier prepared by the Bangalore police had a reference to Dr. Haneef’s alleged links with al-Qaida. Mr. Hosur said they had a copy of the said dossier, but it was not prepared by them.

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