Mumbai Bomb Blasts: Suspect Dies in Interrogation
posted on Jul 18, 2011 @ 12:17PM
Mumbai Bomb Blasts, that occured on 13 july have left 19 died and over hundred severely injured. The investigating police team detained one Faizal Osmani for questioning on Saturday. Faizal Osmani died in hospital on early Sunday while still in police custody. During questioning, Faizal complained of being not well and was taken to the hospital, where he died of heart attack, the police said.
Faizal Osmani was the elder brother of a suspect of blasts in the western city of Ahmedabad in 2008, who is now in prison. His family suspects foul play, but police deny allegations of torture, saying he died of a heart attack. The police said that within 20 minutes he was complaining of stomach ache and vomited. Upon that he was taken to a local hospital, where examinations revealed that he had suffered from brain haemorrhage. He died early on Sunday. "Mr Osmani was suffering from hypertension. The allegations of torture by police are absolutely untrue," a police official told. The chief of the hospital where Faizal Osmani was admitted said that Osmani had suffered from a heart attack and "no marks of injury were found on his body".