UK terror: India Runs Check on Dr Mohammad Haneef of Mudigere
 
New Delhi, Jul 4: Indian authorities are so far not investigating Dr Mohammad Haneef, who was detained in Brisbane on Tuesday in connection with the attack in Glasgow.

Union Home Secretary Madhukar Gupta said it was a British investigation as of now and India would cooperate when necessary.

However, Indian security agencies have run a background check on the doctor who belongs to Bangalore.

External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee has said that India has asked the British and Australian authorities for details about its two nationals detained.

Haneef, whose phone records show he was in touch with some of the other suspects, is also suspected to have contacted somebody in India recently.

However, neither British nor Australian authorities have yet charged Haneef formally.

Who is the man named as a possible Indian connection to the foiled terror attack in the United Kingdom?

For five years Haneef studied at the B R Ambedkar Medical College in Bangalore between 1998-2002. However, the charges against him are still not sure and in what way if at all he was involved.

The college principal is a little confused as to which Dr Mohammed Haneef is being held in Australia but if it is the one he remembers, he recalls him as being quiet and studious.

''He passed out from our college in year 2002 and completed his internship in 2003 and was admitted to our college under government quota (CET). He was a merit student and as far as I remember he was quite studious and a very quiet boy,'' said Dr Ramesh, Principal, B R Ambedkar Medical College.

He added that no information has been requested on him from Australia so far and there is very little on record.

''During his admission we have his address to be from Mudigere in Chikmagalur district and while passing out he has given his address as Pilana Garden, Bangalore in 2002 and after that we have no records,'' said Dr S Sacchidanand, Registrar Evaluation, Rajiv Gandhi University.

At his home, nobody wanted to speak on camera, however neighbours said he had lived there with his mother and sister and that they kept to themselves.

It has been a long journey for Dr Mohammed Haneef, from a reportedly quiet merit student to having his name being connected with a terrorist strike.

More details will no doubt emerge in the next few days and only then one can get a better glimpse of the real Dr Mohammed Haneef.
 

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BANGALORE, Jul 4: Mohammed Haneef, one of the two Indian doctors detained in connection with last week's botched terror attack in the UK, was "quiet by nature but was academically brilliant", a person said to be his neighbour claimed on Tuesday.

Haneef did his schooling at a government Urdu school in Mudigere in Karnataka's Chikmagalur district, Shameer Ahmed, who claimed to know Haneef in his childhood days, said over telephone.

"He was quiet but he was brilliant. He studied with the help of scholarship," Ahmed, a trader in Mudigere, said. Haneef's father Shami Khaleel was teaching at the local Urdu school.

Khaleel died in a road accident some eight years ago, after which the family shifted to Bangalore, according to him.

Ahmed said that after studying in high school at Mudigere, Haneef did his pre-university certification course at SDM College at Ujire in neighbouring Dakshina Kannada district.

He then did his MBBS from Dr B R Ambedkar Medical College affiliated to Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences.

Ahmed said Haneef was married. He had a sister who was also married while his younger brother was studying in an engineering college in Bangalore.