India | Updated Jul 05, 2007 at 10:47am IST

Nightmare for detained Bangalore docs' families

Deepa BalakrishnanDeepa Balakrishnan, CNN-IBN

Bangalore: Ever since her son Mohammed Haneef was hauled up for questioning in connection with the London and Glasgow failed car bomb attacks, Quratulain has been incessantly praying, fighting her tears.

Haneef's family has been forced to put up with allegations and rumours, even as they wait for word on when he would come home to see his new-born.

“His wife delivered a baby eight days back. He was coming to see my baby as well,” says Haneef’s sister Sumaiya.

Nearly 15 km across the city, the same sense of despair rules Haneef's cousin Sabeel Ahmed’s home.

Ahmed, the second doctor being questioned, is the son of doctor parents. They too shout out their son's innocence.

"God only knows, I don’t know about what’s happening there. I have been here. In fact I asked them if I could come there and help them. They said if required they’d call me,” says Sabeel’s mother Zakia Ahmed.

Terror investigations normally stretch to infinite periods of time and as this case unfolds across two countries, it's the families that are undergoing a trauma of a different kind.

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