New Delhi: Innocent or guilty? That is the question everyone is asking when talk turns to Dr Mohammad Haneef.
The 27-year-old Indian national is lodged in a Brisbane prison for his alleged connection to the failed UK terror attacks in July this year.
Haneef was charged with "recklessly lending support to known terror groups, by lending his mobile phone SIM card to terror suspects".
However, new evidence has emerged that the SIM card -- which the police had earlier claimed was found in the burning jeep used in the Glasgow Airport attack -- was not in the jeep after all. It was allegedly seized from another suspect and Haneef's cousin, Sabeel Ahmed eight hours later when the police arrested Sabeel.
There is also talk now that the Immigration Department in Australia may have acted on incorrect information when it decided to order his detention.
"Even one error of fact could be enough to undermine the government's case," constitutional lawyer George Williams was quoted as saying by The Australian.
Those mistakes are expected to be raised in the Federal Court by Haneef's lawyers on August 8 when they challenge the Government's decision on Monday to revoke his visa.
If the information on which the Immigration Department acted is incorrect in any way, then the decision to detain Haneef will be immediately overturned.
Haneef's work visa was revoked and he was taken into immigration custody despite the fact that an Australian federal court magistrate, Jacqui Payne, granted him conditional bail, saying the prosecution's evidence was not strong enough to keep him in jail.
The apparent errors in the information considered by Andrews are contained in a minute on Haneef that was prepared by senior public servant Peter White on Monday.
(With inputs from PTI)
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