Azam Ghauri was a member of the proscribed Islamist group

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. He was wanted for various crimes including the 1993 serial bomb blasts.

History

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. To escape arrest he fled

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and went to Pakistan and joined Lashkar-e-Toiba. He received training at the hands of

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in Afghanistan. In 1992, he returned to India and was involved in the murder of G Krishna Prasad, an

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in Hyderabad. In 1993 he was part of the criminal group that carried out the 1993 serial bomb blasts in

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which caused over 250 fatalities and 700 injuries. He fled again to Pakistan to escape prosecution and received further weapons training. Ghauri infiltrated back into India and came to

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and started recruiting Muslim youths for disruptive activities in India and founded ''Indian Muslim Mohammadi Mujahideen'' outfit with the stated objective "to eradicate western culture from India". On 6 April 2000 he was killed by

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in a police shoot out, after he pulled out a 7.65 mm Mauser pistol to fire at policemen. Police records show Ghauri was involved in as many as 60 crimes such as extortion, killings and theft.

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