Prosecution sought death; Dossa got it, naturally

Mustafa Dossa’s daughter, Shahnawaz, had cried after the court pronounced him guilty on Tuesday. Shahnawaz was worried for her father as he suffered from heart ailment. “He will not return now,” Shahnawaz had said. Dossa’s daughter’s fears were proven right. A highly diabetic Dossa could barely walk properly and after the fact that his death was imminent in the verdict bogged him down mentally, he developed severe breathlessness and hypertension of the fear of going to the gallows. Finally at 3.00 am on Wednesday, Dossa was shifted to the JJ Hospital and died of a severe cardiac arrest in the afternoon.

Before the prosecution began its arguments for the sentence hearing on Tuesday before the Special TADA court, Dossa, one of the main accused in 1993, Mumbai bomb blast hearing, was seen in a deep conversation with his new lawyer advocate Yug Mohit Chaudhary. Dossa then excused himself twice to visit the restroom. He seemed frail and dragged on his feet. His advocate Chaudhary even informed the court that they would be making an application for the health report on Wednesday. “My client is not keeping well, he is weak and I wish to make an appli- cation for his health report,” the counsel informed the court.

Soon the proceedings began and Dossa’s name was first that the Public Prosecutor (PP) Deepak. N. Salvi began with. Salvi began with his arguments citing few judgments that show along with the cumulative the aggravating circumstances for the 1993 bomb blasts are important to give death sentence to the six accused.