1993 Mumbai blasts convict Dossa dies day after CBI seeks death for him

Mumbai: Mumbai 1993 blasts convict Mustafa Dossa (60) died of cardiac arrest on Wednesday afternoon at JJ Hospital, Mumbai. Dossa died a day after CBI sought death penalty for him. Dossa, was one of the six convicts against whom the hearing on the quantum of punishment is ongoing in the special TADA court wherein the CBI has been asking for the death sentence for five of the six convicts.

Dossa was convicted under various sections of TADA, IPC, Arms Act, Explosives Act and Damage to Property Act and was termed as the mastermind of the 1993 blast and was incriminated for having played a decisive role in the planning and execution of the serial blasts that left 257 Mumbaikars dead and 713 injured.

According to Dr T P Lahane, dean of JJ Hospital, Dossa who was lodged in Arthur Road jail was brought to the hospital at 3 am after he complained of chest pain and fever. Dr Lahane said that Dossa also had bad diabetes, hypertension and a urinal tract infection. “Dossa was admitted to the jail ward of the hospital at 3 am and shifted to the Intensive Coronary Care Unit at around 11.30 am. He breathed his last at 2.30 pm today,” Dr Lahane said.

He added that the cause of death seemed to be cardiac arrest that Dossa suffered, but the real cause will be ascertained only after an autopsy is performed.

Dossa alongwith Abu Salem, Tahir Merchant, Karimullah Sheikh, Firoz Khan and Riyaz Siddiqui had been convicted by the special TADA court on June 16 for their involvement in the 1993 serial blasts case.