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{{infobox civilian attack
| date = 28 December 2005
| time = c. 7:00 p.m. <br> ([[UTC+5:30]])
| type = [[shooting]]
| weapons = [[Type 56]] assault rifle
| fatalities = 1 ([[Munish Chandra Puri]])
| injuries = 4 
| perps = Two unknown men 
}}
{{Terrorist attacks in India (since 2001)}}
[[File:IISc Admin Building Right Side.jpg|thumb|200px|right|The administrative department of the [[Indian Institute of Science]].]]
The '''December 2005 IISc shooting'''  occurred on Wednesday, 28 December 2005 at the [[Indian Institute of Science]] (IISc) in the [[India]]n city of [[Bangalore]], 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 [[Karnataka]] 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 [[Hindustan Ambassador|Ambassador]] car.  At around 7:20 pm, delegates attending the International Conference on [[Operations Research]]: 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 [[Type 56]], outside the auditorium.<ref name="ndtv">{{cite news |title=Gunmen kill scientist in IISc Bangalore | date=29 December 2005 | publisher=NDTV | url=http://www.ndtv.com/topstories/showtopstory.asp?slug=Gunmen+kill+scientist+in+IISc+Bangalore&id=18464&category=National}}</ref><ref name="rediff" />

[[Munish Chandra Puri]], a [[Professor Emeritus]] at the mathematics department of the [[Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi|Indian Institute of Technology]] in [[New Delhi]], 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.<ref name="rediff">{{cite news |title=Terror attack at IISc, Bangalore; 1 killed, 4 injured | date=29 December 2005 | publisher=Rediff.com | url=http://in.rediff.com/news/2005/dec/28bang.htm}}</ref><ref name="bbc">{{cite news |title=Witnesses recount India gun horror | date=29 December 2005 | publisher=BBC | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4566282.stm}}</ref><ref name="bbc2">{{cite news |title=Massive hunt for India attacker | date=29 December 2005 | publisher=BBC | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4565944.stm}}</ref>

==Investigation and trial==
The police later recovered a Chinese made [[Type 56]] military rifle, twelve empty cartridges, one empty magazine, five live magazines (one half-spent), two grenades, and one live hand-grenade which they defused.<ref name="midday">{{cite news | title=LeT hand not ruled out in Bangalore attack | date=29 December 2005 | publisher=Mid-Day | url=http://ww1.mid-day.com/news/nation/2005/december/127161.htm }}{{dead link|date=March 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> The police surmise that the gunmen had escaped by scaling the boundary wall of the campus. No organisation claimed responsibility.<ref>{{cite news|author=T. A. Johnson|title=Terror hits Bangalore, target is IISc|url=http://www.indianexpress.com/storyOld.php?storyId=84846|accessdate=21 January 2011|newspaper=Indian Express|date=29 December 2005}}</ref>

The Karnataka police identified the attackers as belonging to a cell of the [[Pakistan]]-based terror outfit [[Lashkar-e-Taiba]] (LeT).  Six people were convicted in December 2011 and several others are at large including the shooter.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.news18.com/news/india/alleged-conspirator-helped-iisc-shooting-prime-suspect-flee-to-bangladesh-1364872.html|title='Alleged Conspirator Helped IISc Shooting Prime Suspect Flee to Bangladesh'|work=News18|access-date=2018-10-06}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/ten-years-on-iisc-attack-mastermind-at-large/article8032034.ece|title=Ten years on, IISc. attack mastermind at large|author=Staff Reporter|date=2015-12-27|work=The Hindu|access-date=2018-10-06|language=en-IN|issn=0971-751X}}</ref>

In 2007, possible links arose between the shooting and [[Bilal Abdullah]] and [[Kafeel Ahmed]], the perpetrators of [[2007 UK terrorist incidents|two terrorist incidents]] that occurred in the [[United Kingdom]] that same year. Investigations were carried out to unearth these purported links.<ref name="ibnlive">{{cite news|title=Bangalore terror link puts IISc attack under scanner|publisher=ibnlive.com|date=10 July 2007|accessdate=10 July 2007|url=http://www.ibnlive.com/news/bangalore-terror-link-puts-iisc-attack-under-scanner/44429-3.html}}</ref>

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