1993 Mumbai serial blasts convict Mustafa Dossa dead


Mumbai, Jun 28 (Zee News): 1993 Mumbai serial blasts convict Mustafa Dossa on Wednesday passed away after he was admitted to hospital for hypertension and diabetes.

Confirming Dossa's death, the Dean of JJ Hospital said the blast convict died due to cardiac arrest today at 2.30 pm.

He was admitted to the JJ Hospital today after he complained of chest pain.

Yesterday, the CBI had sought capital punishment for Dossa, arguing that his role in the blasts was "more severe" than that of hanged convict Yakub Memon.

The CBI said Dossa was one of the "brains" behind the conspiracy and that his degree of responsibility towards the commission of the crime was the highest.

The court, in the second leg of the trial in the blasts case, had on June 16 convicted five accused, including Dossa and extradited gangster Abu Salem, under the charges of murder, conspiracy and sections of now repealed TADA, while the sixth accused Riyaz Siddiqui was convicted only under TADA Act.

As many as 257 people were killed in the co-ordinated blasts that ripped through the city on March 12, 1993.

Twenty four years after multiple blasts ripped through Mumbai killing 257 people and injuring over 700, a special TADA court convicted six accused, including key figures Abu Salem and Mustafa Dossa, while acquitting one.

Those found guilty in what is India's worst-ever terror strike are: Abu Salem who was extradited from Portugal in 2005, Mustafa Dossa, who was deported from the UAE, Mohammed Tahir Merchant alias Tahir Takla, Karimullah Khan, Riyaz Siddiqui and Feroze Abdul Rashid Khan.

  

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  • NR, mangalore

    Sat, Jul 01 2017

    GUJARATH in 2002

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  • Leslie, udupi

    Wed, Jun 28 2017

    Facts are sacred... But comments are free...
    However...
    Justice delayed is justice denied...

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  • HENRY MISQUITH, Bahrain

    Wed, Jun 28 2017

    Finally death saved Dossa from the gallows..

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  • Raj, Manipal

    Wed, Jun 28 2017

    This is really a GOOD NEWS... But it would have been better if he was hanged till dead... All the souls of 257 dead people would be in peace.. But the Main CULPRIT is still sitting in the other side of border.. Agla number uski aane wali hai.

    Jai Hind

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

    Wed, Jun 28 2017

    If we are incompetent to pass judgement - God takes over ...

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  • MILAN, LUCERNE

    Wed, Jun 28 2017

    WE MISSED AN OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE MASALA DOSA OF MUSTHAFA.

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  • Jamal, Mangalore/UAE

    Wed, Jun 28 2017

    What is use of recommending Capital Punishment now by CBI. He has lived for 24 years after the bomb blast.

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  • Dinesh, Dubai

    Wed, Jun 28 2017

    he can escape from man made law but not in the hand of god...

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  • MILAN, LUCERNE

    Wed, Jun 28 2017

    HE SHOULD HAVE TORTURED TO DEATH. WE DONT WANTED HIM TO HAVE SIMPLE DEATH.

    WHAT DID HE GAIN BY KILLING INNOCENT PEOPLE.

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  • melwn, shirva

    Wed, Jun 28 2017

    I am unable to understand the logic behind killing of innocent people. what benefit they will get by murdering the innocent people. but till some supporters are there in our society who felt bad when yakub memon was punished. they want the safety of their family only & not worried about others even 257 innocent people killed by these terrorist.

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