UK terror plot: Haneef granted bail
Indian Doctor Mohammed Haneef granted bail by Australian court in connection with the failed UK terror plot.
By PTI |
MELBOURNE: Indian doctor Mohammed Haneef, charged in connection with last month's failed car bomb attacks in Britain, was on Monday granted bail by an Australian court hearing into the charges.
Following a day-long hearing yesterday, the Brisbane magistrate Jacqui Payne today ruled Mohamed Haneef should be released into the community pending his trial for "recklessly" supporting a terrorism organisation.
The 27-year-old hailing from Bangalore must provide a surety of $10,000, and report to the Southport police station three times a week.
The Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions had not alleged that Haneef was directly involved with a terror group behind last month's failed extremist attacks in London and Glasgow, Payne said.
She said that a mobile phone SIM card belonging to him and found in the possession of the UK terror suspects had been left with family members in Britain before he came to Australia last year and had not been used in the failed attacks.
She also took into account that he was a doctor who was working and studying in Australia.
Under the terms of his bail, Haneef must report three times a week to Southport police - on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays between 6 am and 10 pm -- and must notify the Commonwealth DPP of his residential address. His passport has already been seized and is barred from applying a fresh one.
Following a day-long hearing yesterday, the Brisbane magistrate Jacqui Payne today ruled Mohamed Haneef should be released into the community pending his trial for "recklessly" supporting a terrorism organisation.
The 27-year-old hailing from Bangalore must provide a surety of $10,000, and report to the Southport police station three times a week.
The Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions had not alleged that Haneef was directly involved with a terror group behind last month's failed extremist attacks in London and Glasgow, Payne said.
She said that a mobile phone SIM card belonging to him and found in the possession of the UK terror suspects had been left with family members in Britain before he came to Australia last year and had not been used in the failed attacks.
She also took into account that he was a doctor who was working and studying in Australia.
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Under the terms of his bail, Haneef must report three times a week to Southport police - on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays between 6 am and 10 pm -- and must notify the Commonwealth DPP of his residential address. His passport has already been seized and is barred from applying a fresh one.
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