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Sabeel’s family delighted about his return

BANGALORE: Sabeel Ahmed, who was sentenced to 18 months in a U.K. jail for withholding information relating to the botched terror attack on Glasgow airport last year, was expected to return to the city in the early hours of Thursday.

At the time of going to the press, Dr. Ahmed was to board a British Airways fight.

When contacted, Dr. Ahmed’s mother Zakia told The Hindu: “We don’t know when he is coming. He only said he would arrive by the British Airways flight.” She said she last spoke with him on Tuesday night. She was happy he was finally coming back. All the family members, including her husband Maqbool Ahmed and sister Sadia Kauser, could not wait to see him. “Mindful of our health, he has asked us not come to the airport. He is also worried of being surrounded by mediapersons,” Dr. Zakia said.

“I think he has finished all the formalities required in U.K. He did not tell me anything about it,” she added.

Dr. Sabeel Ahmed, who was working at the Halton Hospital in Runcom after completing medical education at the Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Medical College here, was arrested after his brother Kafeel drove a jeep filled with propane canisters into the Glasgow airport terminal on June 30, 2007. But the burning vehicle failed to break through the glass doors and no one was injured.

Kafeel, an engineer, subsequently died of burns.

B.T. Venkatesh, family lawyer, said he was coming voluntarily and there were no terrorism charges pending against him. He said the British police might escort him and but he would not be in their custody.

Meanwhile, sources in the police said they planned to “discuss details of the case” with Dr. Sabeel. They emphasised that it would be a discussion and not interrogation.

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