Haneefs colleague Dr Ali returns from Australia

Mohammad Asif Ali, an Indian doctor who was questioned by the Australian Federal Police (AFP) in connection with the June terror plot in UK, arrived in India on Friday.

Bangalore, Aug 18 : Mohammad Asif Ali, an Indian doctor who was questioned by the Australian Federal Police (AFP) in connection with the June terror plot in UK, arrived in India on Friday.

Ali returned to India after his passport confiscated by the AFP, was returned.

His arrival comes days after the Queensland administration said they would be happy to allow him to leave the country to avoid further embarrassment over his employment on the basis of suspected credentials.

Ali's passport was confiscated last month when AFP began probing his links with Mohammad Haneef, a fellow Indian doctor who was held by AFP for nearly a month before being allowed to return on July 27.

The Queensland Medical Board had suspended Ali on July 27 after it was revealed that he had faked about three months of his employment history on his resume when he applied for a job at Gold Coast Hospital.

Officials in Australia, however, say that Ali would remain under investigation though he was allowed to leave the country.

An Indian engineer, Kafeel Ahmed, who was one of the two occupants of a jeep laden with petrol canisters that rammed into Glasgow airport on June 30, died on August 2.

Though the jeep burst into flames, there were no casualties in the building.

The day before the attack, two cars were found in central London with bombs packed with gas canisters, petrol and nails which failed to explode.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown has spoken of an al Qaeda link to the alleged plot, in which three doctors from Iraq, Jordan and India have been charged.

The botched London and Glasgow attacks prompted Britain to raise its security alert to "critical", its highest level, for several days.

ANI