By IANS
Bangalore : The Bangalore police Saturday said they were yet to hear officially from their British counterparts about terror plot suspect Kafeel Ahmed who died of burns Thursday.
“We have not received any official confirmation that the man who drove the burning jeep into Glasgow airport and died of burns on Aug 2 was Kafeel Ahmed,” City Police Commissioner Neelam Achutha Rao told reporters Saturday.
Moreover, they were not aware whether Kafeel’s mother Zakia Ahmed would travel to Britain to receive his body.
“We have no such information,” a senior police officer said reacting to reports from London that Kafeel’s body would be returned to India within a week and his mother was on her way to Britain.
Zakia, her husband Maqbool Ahmed and daughter Sadia Kauser have refused to speak to the media or the police after news of Kafeel’s death reached here.
Both Friday and Saturday, when scores of reporters thronged their house in upmarket Banashankari area in the city, they only said “Please leave us alone”.
Zakia and Maqbool are both retired doctors and Sadia is a fourth year medical student.
The family had first stoutly denied the driver of the jeep that rammed into the Glasgow airport terminal building on June 30 was their son but later told police that it appeared to be so from the TV grab.
The Bangalore police, therefore, doubt whether Zakia will indeed go to Britain and bring back the body of Kafeel who succumbed to the 90 percent burns he suffered in the Glasgow attack.
Kafeel, an engineer, had gone to Britain for higher studies.
His brother Sabeel Ahmed, a doctor, was arrested in Liverpool hours after the Glasgow attack and has been charged with withholding information on the terror plot.
Their second cousin Muhammad Haneef, also a doctor, was detained for 25 days in Australia on charges of supporting the plot but has since returned to Bangalore after charges were dropped.
Achutha Rao said the city police had seized one more hard disk from Kafeel’s residence in Banashankari and sent it to the Forensic Science Laboratory, Hyderabad.
He declined to say when it was seized. Earlier a high-capacity hard disc had been seized from Kafeel’s house and sent to the Hyderabad laboratory for analysis and retrieving information.
Asked when the police expect to get the details of the contents of the second disc, the official said: “I really do not know how much time it is going to take.”