New Delhi, Jul 8: ‘Abu Hamza', who has been linked to several terror strikes in the country, including the 2005 attack on the prestigious Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bangalore, is dead, if the statement of 26/11 key handler Syed Zabiuddin is to be believed.
During his interrogation, a copy of which has been submitted to the Union Home Ministry, 30-year-old Zabiuddin alias Abu Jundal said that Hamza, the main attacker of IISc, died in 2009.
Zabiuddin also claimed that he attended the funeral of Hamza, who, he said, died at the age of 39 due to mysterious illness. His real name is stated to be Mohammed Ramadhan Mohammed Siddiqui.
Mumbai Police had secured an Interpol Red Corner in 2010 when Hamza was already dead, according to the detailed interrogation of Zabiuddin who has provided a deep insight into the hierarchy of banned Pakistan-based Lashker-e-Taiba(LeT) terror outfit.
Retired professor M C Puri, Professor Emeritus in the Mathematics Department of Delhi's Indian Institute of Technology was killed and four others injured after unidentified gunmen opened indiscriminate fire at IISc on December 28, 2005.
The name of Hamza again came on the radar of central security agencies when Maharashtra's elite Anti Terror Squad(ATS) claimed that one of the voice from Karachi-based control room for 26/11 attack was his, a claim disputed by the deported Zabiuddin
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