The December 2005 IISc shooting occurred on Wednesday, 28 December 2005 at the

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(IISc) in the

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n city of

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, killing Prof. Munish Chandra Puri of IIT Delhi and injuring four, after two or more unidentified gunmen fired at Puri and others. The state government of

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declared the shooting to be a terrorist attack, making it the first such attack in Bangalore.

Shooting

At around 7:00 pm local time (1:30 pm GMT), two people entered the IISc campus in a white

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car. At around 7:20 pm, delegates attending the International Conference on

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: Applications in Infrastructure Development, organised by the Operations Research Society of India at the JN Tata Auditorium on the IISc campus, were heading to dinner when the shooting began. A gunman, wearing black mask and army uniform, started firing indiscriminately from a rifle, thought to be a Chinese

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, outside the auditorium. Munish Chandra Puri, a

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at the mathematics department of the

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, was wounded by bullets. He died ''en route'' to hospital. Three other scientists and a lab assistant were among the injured. One of the injured was a pregnant woman, who sustained injuries to her eye. The other three injured had serious bullet injuries and underwent emergency surgeries.

Investigation and trial

The police later recovered a Chinese made

military rifle, twelve empty cartridges, one empty magazine, five live magazines (one half-spent), two grenades, and one live hand-grenade which they defused. The police surmise that the gunmen had escaped by scaling the boundary wall of the campus. No organisation claimed responsibility. The Karnataka police identified the attackers as belonging to a cell of the

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-based terror outfit

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(LeT). Six people were convicted in December 2011 and several others are at large including the shooter. In 2007, possible links arose between the shooting and Bilal Abdullah and

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, the perpetrators of two terrorist incidents that occurred in the

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that same year. Investigations were carried out to unearth these purported links.

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