Mumbai serial blasts convict Mustafa Dossa passes away

Mumbai, June 28: 1993 Mumbai serial blasts convict Mustafa Dossa has passed away after he was admitted to hospital for hypertension and diabetes here on Wednesday.

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

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

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



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accused, including Dossa and extradited gangster Abu Salem, under the charges of murder, conspiracy and sections of now repealed TADA, while the sixth accused Riyaz Siddiqui was convicted only under TADA Act.