An Indian doctor who was jailed in Britain for withholding information about planned car bomb attacks in London and Glasgow has returned to India but will now face questioning by local police, an officer said. Sabeel Ahmed, 26, arrived in the southern city of Bangalore on Thursday escorted by two British policemen, after serving 270 days in jail in Britain. He is the younger brother of Kafeel Ahmed, an engineer, who drove a jeep into the Glasgow airport terminal building on June 30 last year and set it alight. Kafeel died later in hospital from 90 percent burns. Police later arrested Sabeel Ahmed after learning that he was sent an e-mail with details of the attacks from his brother before he drove the jeep to Glasgow airport.
Sabeel was sentenced to 18 months in jail in April, but was allowed to go free because he had already spent around half that time in custody, and after he had confessed and signed a document stating that he would retun to India voluntarily. On Thursday, Sabeel’s mother said her son was tired and resting in their hometown of Bangalore. “He did not cry, I cried. We are all happy to have him back,” Zakia Ahmed, his mother said.
But Indian police said they were interested in questioning him, as part of an investigation into the banned Muslim group, the Students’ Islamic Movement of India (SIMI). “It could be a routine investigation,” said a senior officer of the Corps of Detectives in the state of Karnataka state. “We want to examine his role before he left India,” the officer, who did not want to be named, said.
SIMI has been blamed for helping to carry out several bomb attacks in India. Police have arrested a medical student and a software engineer in Bangalore recently, following the arrest of the groupÂ’s leader Safdori Nagori and 12 other senior members in March this year.