Shehzad Ahmed, a convict serving life sentence in the Batla House encounter, died during pancreatitis treatment at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on Saturday, the police said.
Ahmed alias Pappu, 33, a resident of Uttar Pradesh’s Azamgarh and a suspected Indian Mujahideen (IM) operative, was serving a life sentence in the 2008 Batla House encounter in which Inspector Mohan Chand Sharma was killed, officials said. Special cell Inspector Sharma was killed during the encounter between the police and alleged IM operatives in south Delhi’s Jamia Nagar following serial bomb blasts in the capital in which 39 people were killed and 159 were injured.
Prison officials said, “The convict was admitted to GTB hospital on December 8, 2022, for diagnosis of gallbladder stone-induced acute necrotizing pancreatitis with modified CTSI and referred to Safdarjung hospital on December 27.” Thereafter, he was referred to AIIMS on January 11. On Saturday, the authorities informed that Ahmed had died at AIIMS hospital at 7.42 am, the officials added.
Ahmed was lodged at Tihar Jail on February 6, 2010. He was later transferred to Central Jail no. 15 in Mandoli on July 7 last year from Central Jail no. 8/9 in Tihar. He was facing trials in six other cases, one of which was registered in Bengaluru, the police added.
