New Delhi: UK terror suspect, Dr Mohammad Haneef, who has been detained in Australia in connection with the failed terrorist attack at Glasgow airport, has got help and comfort coming his way from India.
His wife's cousin, Imran Ahmed Siddiqui, left for Brisbane from Bangalore on Friday morning to be with Haneef.
Imran is carrying with him, pictures of Haneef's three-week-old baby Haniya and messages of support from his relatives and friends.
Imran will also be meeting Haneef's lawyer in Australia, Peter Russo, to discuss the case.
Australia has issued a tourist visa to Imran so that he could provide Haneef support during the legal proceedings.
Haneef is currently lodged in solitary confinement in a jail in Brisbane.
Meanwhile, in a related development back in India, the Government has given the CBI the go-ahead to provide details, including bank transactions, to Australia about Haneef.
The clearance from the Home Ministry for providing the information came in a wake of Letters Rogatory issued by the Australian Attorney General, which sought, among other things, details of accounts held by Haneef in Bangalore-based branches of UTI Bank and State Bank of India, official sources were quoted by news agency PTI as saying.
Orders were issued to the CBI for the immediate execution of the Letters Rogatory and would also be sent to Karnataka Police for providing all necessary information sought by Australian authorities.
The bank details are needed to ascertain whether Haneef had received funds from some foreign organisations, sources said.
A Home Ministry spokesman was quoted by PTI as saying, "The ministry had received a request from the Australian government for assistance in the case of Mohammed Haneef. Necessary assistance is being provided as per due process through proper channel. This is the practice being followed in such cases."
Australia also sent a questionnaire for Haneef's wife Arshiya Firdous and his brother Shoaib, seeking information about the doctor's education, family structure, birth of a child and even whether his wife had undergone a Caesaren operation.
They also wanted to know why Haneef's father-in-law had sent a one-way ticket to him and sought the verification of certain phone numbers that Australian authorities are probing for suspected terror links, they said.
Haneef has been charged with recklessly providing support to a "terror group" in the form of a mobile phone SIM card.
(With inputs from PTI)
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