Kin of terror accused offers to treat patients in Tihar jail
Dr Sabeel Ahmad, brother of Kafeel Ahmed who carried out the terrorist attack at Glasgow airport in June 2007, and is currently lodged in Tihar jail, has approached a Delhi court seeking permission to provide his medical expertise in treating Covid-19 patients lodged inside the prison.
Sabeel stated in his application before additional sessions judge Dharmender Rana at Patiala House that he is a qualified MBBS doctor with seven years of experience in treatment of critical cases. HT has seen the application he filed on Wednesday. “His experience and expertise will come in handy in the treatment of inmates in Central Jail, Tihar,” said his lawyer M S Khan.
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Sabeel (39) was convicted for 18 months in the Glasglow attack for withholding information about his brother’s suicide mission and was deported to India in 2008. In 2010, he went to Saudi Arabia and started working at King Fahad hospital. As per investigation by Indian agencies, Sabeel, also known as ‘Motu Doctor’, was providing logistical and financial support to LET while in Saudi Arabia and was also in touch with some terror suspects based in Pakistan.
It is alleged the LET members had planned to attack some prominent figures and government officials in Bengaluru, Hubli, Hyderabad and Nanded.
Sabeel was also convicted in Riyadh in a case of collecting donations illegally in the name of operating a school in India. He stayed in a prison in Saudi Arabia till August 2020 and was put under arrest by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) after he was brought to New Delhi.
In the chargesheet filed on February 22 this year, the NIA stated Sabeel was in touch with Shaheed Faisal, one of the suspects in the LET case who is believed to be in Pakistan. HT has reviewed the NIA chargesheet. Delhi Police’s special cell filed a separate case against him in February this year for his involvement in a conspiracy case of Al-qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS). The Delhi Police alleged he played a role in arranging logistics and finances for arrested terrorists wanted in India and abroad.
Khan said, “The two investigation agencies – Delhi Police and NIA – are themselves not on the same page. Is he a LET operative or AQIS? There is no evidence against Sabeel Ahmed”