Vijay Chandru is actually quite badly injured. He has had a surgery, and doctors say his condition is stable. But i guess he is not of our danger. He sustained 3 bullet wounds.
perhaps all of us knew that something like this could happen anyway, but quite shocked.
I guess you have to be just stoic about it.
And now that this has happened in an apparently unsuspecting place like IISc, unlike say Infosys, I guess one has to just brace oneself for the 'surveillance' backlash that might follow soon… increased cop-presence on the streets and the like, things which Delhi has been already been familiar with…
On 12/28/05, Thaths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Any Bangalorean silklister have any further information on this?
I, personally, think the simputer was a sheer waste after 1.5 years of
fame, but I would not have descended to shooting one of the guys
behind it.
Thaths
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4564892.stm
Professor dies in Indian gun raid
A professor has been killed by a gunman who opened fire on a science
conference in the southern Indian city of Bangalore, police say.
Three other people were also wounded as the gunman sprayed automatic
gunfire at the Indian Institute of Science before escaping in a car.
Professor MC Puri, from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, died
on the way to hospital.
Police have set up checkpoints across the city.
Emergency meeting
Those wounded were said to be scientists and laboratory technicians
attending the conference.
The Indian Institute of Science is a leading postgraduate college in
India's technology hub of Bangalore.
The attack took place at about 1930 local time (1400GMT).
Police said the assailants approached in an Ambassador car. One of
them got out and fired randomly outside an auditorium door. The car
then sped off.
One of those injured, Prof Vijay Chandru, is the founder of the
Indian-developed palm-computer, the Simputer. It is not clear how
serious his injuries are.
State Chief Minister Dharam Singh has called an emergency meeting for Thursday.
"We cannot say at this stage whether terrorists are involved in this
incident," an official at his office said.
The incident happened hours after gangster Abu Salem was brought to
Bangalore for lie detector tests over his alleged involvement in
bombings in Mumbai (Bombay) in 1993 that killed 250 people.
Abu Salem was arrested in Portugal in 2002 and extradited to India in November.
Police said there was no suggestion yet of any connection but they
were investigating any possible link.
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