Death
Prof. M.C.Puri, was attending the International Conference on operations research applications in infrastructure development in conjunction with the 38th Annual Convention of ORSI, which was organized by the Bangalore Chapter of ORSI from December 27-December 29, 2005 at J.N.Tata Auditorium, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.
At about 7 p.m. after convention was over at JN Tata Auditorium he with his three colleagues were walking towards the seminar hall of management studies for Annual General Body meeting of ORSI when suddenly bullets were fired from the back within the auditorium complex. Initially the firing was mistaken for crackers but Prof. M.C.Puri soon recognized that it was gunfire and his last words “this is bullet firing lie down” saved the lives of three other participants who were with him at that particular moment when the firing took place - but he was not able to save himself.
Prof M. C. Puri became a victim of the first ever terror attack in Bangalore.
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