By IANS
Mumbai : Mobster Ejaz Pathan, convicted for his role in the 1993 Mumbai serial bombings case, died Friday at a hospital here.
The 40-year-old Pathan, who was sentenced for 10-years by the special anti-terror TADA court on June 8 last year, had been admitted to the state-run J.J. Hospital a few days ago for brain surgery, informed sources said.
While pronouncing the sentence, special TADA judge Pramod Kode had taken Pathan's deteriorating health into consideration and instructed jail authorities not to shift him from Mumbai while he was being treated for a brain clot.
Pathan, a former associate of India's most wanted fugitive Dawood Ibrahim, was found guilty for taking part in a meeting in Dubai with Dawood and other key conspirators — Mohammed Dossa, Anees Ibrahim (brother of Dawood) and Tiger Memon – to plot the Mumbai bombings as a revenge for the demolition of the Babri mosque in December 1992.
The March 1993 blasts killed 257 people.