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Mumbai blasts: Man dies after questioning
India Blooms News Service
Mumbai, July 17 (IBNS) A man who was questioned by the Mumbai Police in connection with the serial blasts of Wednesday died later in a hospital Saturday late night, amid charges from his family that he died because of torture.
Faiz Usmani, who was the brother of 2008 Ahmedabad blast suspect Afzal Usmani now lodged in a Gujarat jail, was admitted in Mumbai's Sion Hospital by the police where he died on Saturday-Sunday intervening night even as police denied subjecting him to any physical torture.
Police said the man was a patient of hypertension and had not taken medicines for some days.
"It was for formal questioning for half an hour or so. There was no question of torture. He after half an hour complained of sickness and taken to hospital," said a senior police officer.
"He was only questioned and nothing else. There was custodial violence. He was immediately admitted in hospital," said DCP, Crime Branch, Nisar Tamboli.
The deceased's brother Afzal Usmani is a suspected Indian Mujahideen (IM) member who was arrested in 2008 by the Mumbai Crime Branch.
Usmani had allegedly supplied cars in the 2008 Gujarat serial blasts case.
Investigators of this week’s triple explosions in Mumbai on Saturday said that they had ruled out the possibility of a suicide attack but were still not in a stage to point fingers at the organisation responsible for the strike.
Scouring through rain washed evidence and corpses the police had stumbled upon a male body with a circuit embedded in it and another with a severed head which had led them to examine the possibility of a suicide strike.
Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) chief Rakesh Maria confirmed that the attack was not a suicide strike.
Media reports said that the ATS had contacted its counterpart in West Bengal to track an Indian Mujahideen (IM) member identified as Abdullah who has a house in Kolkata for alleged involvement in attack.
At least 19 people were killed and 130 wounded in coordinated explosions that tore through busy hubs in Mumbai’s evening rush hour on Wednesday evening.
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