London/New Delhi: Two Indian doctors have been detained in Australia and the UK in connection with a series of failed car bomb attacks in London on Friday and an attempt to explode a car bomb at the Glagow international airport on Saturday.
Mohammad Haneef, 27, was detained at the international airport in Brisbane on Monday before he was to board a flight with a one-way ticket to India via Kuala Lumpur. At this point Australian authorities say he is only being questioned for possible involvement in the UK terror plot.
Haneef worked as a registrar at the Gold Coast Hospital in eastern Queensland and records showed he graduated in 2002 from Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences at Bangalore, an AP report said.
M S Prabhakaran, Vice Chancellor of Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, said a student called Mohammed Hanif had passed out of the Ambedkar College in 2002.
“This is what our record shows. However, as of now, we cannot confirm whether the arrested doctor and the student mentioned are the same. We can do that once we have the doctor's registration number,” said Prabhakaran.
Queensland state leader Peter Beattie said: ''The doctor was regarded by the hospital as, in many senses, a model citizen—excellent references and so on.''
No charges had been filed against Haneef yet, but according to Australian laws he can be held without charge for three days. The Indian High Commission is in touch with the police in Australia.
The Independent and The Muslim News newspapers in Britain reported that a man arrested in Liverpool on Saturday was a 26-year-old doctor from Bangalore who worked at Halton Hospital in Cheshire, northern England.
The The Muslim News also said the Indian doctor had used the car, cell phone and Internet account of a fellow physician who had moved from England to Australia around a year ago. It said police had asked friends of the Indian for details about the man who went to Australia.
Eight persons have been arrested in the UK and in Australia in connection with the terror plots. UK is on high alert and officials in Australia didn’t rule out the possibility of an attack being planned in their country.
“While a terrorist attack could be possible in Australia, we have no specific information about any such planned action here. And I say that very deliberately, there is nothing arising from the investigations at this point in time,” said Australian Attorney General Philip Ruddock.
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