Qateel Siddiqui, named in several terror cases, including the Pune German Bakery blast and Bangalore terror attacks, was today strangled to death by other inmates inside the high-security Yerwada jail in Pune
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Suspected Indian Mujahideen operative Mohammad Qateel Siddiqui was lodged in Yerwada Central Jail for his alleged role in in the German Bakery blast and the Bangalore terror attacks.
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Siddiqui was found murdered in his prison cell at around happened at 10:30 am today, his body has been sent for postmortem. , police said.u00a0
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"Qateel was murdered in the jail," a senior ATS official told PTI. Qateel was suspected to have been strangled to death by some inmates following a brawl, police said.u00a0
Siddiqui, named in several terror cases,u00a0was arrested by the Delhi police in 2011.
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Pune Central Jail in Yerwada
Qateel Siddiqui, was allegedly involved in the blast at Chinnaswamy cricket stadium two years ago. The low-intensity blast during a cricket match left several people injured.
The reason and motive for the killing is currently being investigated by the police.u00a0Maharashtra Home Minister R.R. Patil was monitoring the situation.
