No arrests in India over UK terror plot
No arrests over British car bombings, police still questioning relatives and friends of three suspects.
By Agencies |
BANGALORE: Indian police said Monday they were still questioning relatives and friends of three suspects held over the failed British car bombings but had made no formal arrests.
Police Commissioner Achyuta Rao said they were examining the contents of CDs seized from the homes of two Indian suspects from Bangalore's middle-class Jayanagar district held over the botched attacks in London and Glasgow.
"Nobody has been arrested as yet. Investigations are continuing," he told a press conference in Bangalore, a high-tech hub in southern India.
No "confessions" from the suspects' family members, friends or associates had been recorded but they were still being questioned, Rao added.
Kafeel Ahmed, an Indian aeronautical engineer, is believed to be one of the two men who drove a blazing Jeep Cherokee into Glasgow airport. His brother Sabeel, a doctor, is also being investigated by British police.
The botched attack in Scotland came after two failed car bombs in central London on June 29.
The third Indian suspect has been identified as Mohammed Haneef, a doctor working at a hospital in Australia's Gold Coast where he relocated from Britain last September. He is a cousin of the Ahmeds.
Haneef was detained as he attempted to leave Australia for India on a one-way ticket.
Karnataka state home minister M P Prakash told NDTV news channel that Indian investigations into Haneef's background revealed that he was a "misguided youth who has the bent of mind" to plan such attacks.
People like Haneef were "sober, intelligent, courteous" and therefore least likely to be suspected of plotting terror strikes, Prakash added.
A report Sunday in the Hindu newspaper alleged Kafeel Ahmed began researching bomb-making techniques weeks before he travelled to Britain on May 5.
Findings by investigators suggest that Kafeel Ahmed allegedly acted without training or material assistance from organised groups, the report said, adding police had found no evidence of him being linked to Muslim militant groups.
Police Commissioner Achyuta Rao said they were examining the contents of CDs seized from the homes of two Indian suspects from Bangalore's middle-class Jayanagar district held over the botched attacks in London and Glasgow.
"Nobody has been arrested as yet. Investigations are continuing," he told a press conference in Bangalore, a high-tech hub in southern India.
No "confessions" from the suspects' family members, friends or associates had been recorded but they were still being questioned, Rao added.
Kafeel Ahmed, an Indian aeronautical engineer, is believed to be one of the two men who drove a blazing Jeep Cherokee into Glasgow airport. His brother Sabeel, a doctor, is also being investigated by British police.
The botched attack in Scotland came after two failed car bombs in central London on June 29.
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The third Indian suspect has been identified as Mohammed Haneef, a doctor working at a hospital in Australia's Gold Coast where he relocated from Britain last September. He is a cousin of the Ahmeds.
Haneef was detained as he attempted to leave Australia for India on a one-way ticket.
Karnataka state home minister M P Prakash told NDTV news channel that Indian investigations into Haneef's background revealed that he was a "misguided youth who has the bent of mind" to plan such attacks.
People like Haneef were "sober, intelligent, courteous" and therefore least likely to be suspected of plotting terror strikes, Prakash added.
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A report Sunday in the Hindu newspaper alleged Kafeel Ahmed began researching bomb-making techniques weeks before he travelled to Britain on May 5.
Findings by investigators suggest that Kafeel Ahmed allegedly acted without training or material assistance from organised groups, the report said, adding police had found no evidence of him being linked to Muslim militant groups.
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