Pune April 18 (IANS) M. Tahir Merchant alias Tahir Takla one of the convicts in the March 1993 Mumbai serial blasts who was sentenced to death died of a heart attack here on Wednesday a police officer said.
Merchant who was lodged in the Yerawada Central Jail here suffered a heart attack in the prison around 3 a.m. and was rushed to the Sassoon Hospital.
However he failed to respond to the treatment and breathed his last around 3.45 a.m. said Additional DGP (Prisons) B.K. Upadhyay.
On September 7 2017 he was awarded death penalty for conspiring facilitating and knowingly commissioning acts of terror leading to the March 1993 serial bomb explosions which rocked Mumbai.
--IANS
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