Mohd Haneef's flight arrives in Bangalore

BANGALORE: After his 25-day ordeal in Australia, Indian doctor Mohd Haneef, wrongly accused of helping a terrorist group, returned home on Sunday to a highly emotional welcome by his family affirming that terrorism was nowhere in the remotest corner of his brain.

Clad in a dark suit and a maroon striped shirt, Haneef, looking relaxed after being absolved of terror charges in Australia, landed at the Bangalore airport at around 9:30 pm and was warmly received by his father-in-law Ishtiaque Ahmed and brother.

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A huge contingent of media persons, police personnel laid a siege around Haneef who reached accompanied by his cousin Imran Siddiqui who had gone to Australia to help him in his legal case and lawyer Peter Russo. Earlier in an interview with Australian channel 'Nine Network', the Indian doctor, when asked whether he was a terrorist, said, 'it's not in my nature to ever support or involve myself in such activities at all'.

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Haneef said, he was never a risk to Australia and would have informed authorities had he known his cousins Kafeel and Sabeel Ahmed were plotting attacks in the UK.

Haneef arrived Bangalore by a Thai Airways flight from Bangkok where he reached earlier in the day from Brisbane.

He waded through a crowd of media persons and policemen and was put into a car which drove him home.