New Delhi: Dr Mohammed Haneef, the Indian detained in Australia in connection with the plot to carry out terrorist attacks in London and Glasgow, has denied his involvement in the conspiracy.
Sources told CNN-IBN Haneef told Indian High Commission officials that persons who were involved in the foiled attacks knew him. Indian High Commission officials are said to be satisfied with Haneef's conduct.
A British counter-terrorism expert will interrogate Haneef, 27, who was detained at Brisbane international airport on Monday. The officer, a chief inspector with Metropolitan Police's Counter Terrorism Unit, arrived in Brisbane airport on an early morning flight from London via Singapore and was immediately whisked away by Australian Federal Police (AFP) officers.
Australian and British counter-terrorism officials will have about 12 hours of interview time with Haneef under a court order, which will have to be completed by tomorrow, the
Herald newspaper said.
Haneef, who worked as a registrar at the Gold Coast Hospital in New Queensland, is one of the eight persons—one in Australia and seven in the UK—detained in connection with the terror plots. All of them are medical professionals.
AFP Commissioner Mick Keelty has said there enough evidence to justify the arrest of Haneef than just mobile phone records.
He said police had gathered a considerable amount of material from search warrants executed across south-east Queensland.
Health authorities have confirmed Haneef had emergency leave from the hospital to visit his ill wife and newborn daughter in Bangalore.
Federal police are highly unlikely to seek an extension of time to detain Haneef without charge, according to sources quoted by The Age newspaper.
He cannot be extradited without having been charged. If charges are not laid by tomorrow, it is expected he will be released by the weekend.
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