World | Updated Jul 26, 2007 at 09:25pm IST

Review of Haneef's case a positive move: Lawyer

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New Delhi: Legal experts in Australia say the prosecution's decision to review the case of Indian doctor Mohammad Haneef only indicates that the case has collapsed.

Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions, Damian Bugg, is personally reviewing the prosecution's case against Haneef.

But Australian Attorney-General Philip Ruddock has said that it will not undermine the Government's stand on charges against Haneef.

Haneef was charged with recklessly supporting a terrorist organisation.

Meanwhile, Australian federal police commissioner Mick Keelty said an official investigating the case of Haneef has dropped dead at work amid enormous pressure.

Keelty said the man died of natural causes last week amid intense pressure.

A prominent criminal lawyer in Australia has said the review only brought out that the prosecution has a weak face against Haneef.

Peter Faris, a former chairman of the National Crime Authority said on Thursday that the decision of the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions, Damian Bugg, to review the evidence against the Indian doctor suggests that the case has collapsed.

Faris said, “This is the end of the case against Haneef. I have no doubt that the reason that Bugg has intervened is to find a way out of the impasse that the DPP finds itself in which is, to put it bluntly, they have no case."

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