bangalore campus friends of mohammed haneef the indian doctor under the scanner for possible terror links in uk contacted by toi said if anything haneef stood out for his ordinariness a very orthodox person who had dreams of making it big in the uk he was preparing for uk plab exams during the third year itself he never swore and kept himself away from fights and controversies he wanted to give a good life to his folks said dr vamshidhar reddy an ophthalmologistthose like dr s yogendra recalled trying to get close to haneef and said at one point they had even become good friends but towards the third year he completely got cut off from me he always roamed around with other classmates ibrahim and mansur ahmed he looked depressed towards the end of the coursefor whatever reason haneefs grades dropped towards the end while he was among the best for the first two years with a first class he graduated with a second by all accounts haneef led a modest life and fought his way through medical school by studying hard his father who was a teacher at a local urdu school in the town of mudigere died eight years ago after which the family moved to bangalorewhile at medical school he stayed in a onebedroom house with the entire family his mother brother azhar and sister sumayya for three yearshe had to pay the rs 1700 rent at pillanna garden since no one else worked in his family his brother and sister were studying and his mother was at home haneef and his family managed to run the house on income the family got from an ancestral property in mudigere in chikmagalur district the house owner said but he was always wellbehaved and a nononsense personall his family members were decent they paid rent on time and we never had a problem with them haneef was the responsible person in the family looking after all of them it was from that home the family got haneefs sister sumayya married unfortunately her marriage fell apart after four to five months sumayya divorced her husband and came back to the family she then decided to continue with her studiesaround 2002 the house owner was in need of more money and decided to lease out the house as haneefs family could not afford the lease they opted to move out then haneef went overseas after haneef moved to australia the familys lot appeared to improve and they moved to frazer town an upmarket bangalore neighbourhood we cant believe this haneef was so studious wellbehaved and we never had problems with him or his family said moulvi saab a shop owner and a real estate agent who first showed haneef the onebedroom house told toi that haneef had indeed come to him asking for a house on rent i showed him the house he liked it very much and paid me rs 1000 as commission after he took the