Monday, February 18, 2008

Australian police denies compensation to Haneef

I saw the coverage on NDTV 24x7 about Indians abroad. Much of the airtime was dedicated to Dr. Haneef.
Australian police spent a whopping $7.5 million probing Mohammed Haneef, who was wrongly accused of terror charges, the country's police chief said on Monday while claiming that the Indian doctor did not have a case for compensation.

Mick Keelty told the Senate Estimates Committee that the Australian Federal Police (AFP) investigation of Haneef in connection with the failed UK terror bombings last year involved 470 police and customs officers.
Keelty, who has ducked calls for his resignation after the Haneef episode, which caused severe embarrassment to Canberra, said there had been an internal investigation but no changes had been made to processes inside the force.

Lawyers of the 28-year-old Bangalore doctor, who was forced to return to his country even after dropping of charges, have spoken of $9 lakh compensation claiming his career has been ruined by police's actions.

I watch all the news related to India on NDTV 24x7. The news channel is available in the US only through DirecTv, here is the URL for DirecTv:
http://www.directv.com/DTVAPP/packProg/channelChart2.jsp?assetId=1200042

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