The Indian doctor taken into custody in Liverpool last Saturday in connection with the aborted car bomb attacks in London [Images] and Glasgow has been identified as Sabeel Ahmed from Bangalore, media reports said on Wednesday.

Both Ahmed and another Indian doctor detained in Australia, Mohammed Haneef, also from Bangalore, had worked together in Halton Hospital in Cheshire in 2005.

Ahmed is still working there, the reports said.

However, a Metropolitan Police spokesman told PTI that they had taken into custody a 26-year-old man in Liverpool on Saturday but refused to give the identity.