According to sources, in the Special Cell of the Delhi Police, the body of a man resembling Tunda's description -- like his missing arm which was ripped off when he was making a bomb -- was found near some railway tracks near Dhaka yesterday. A wire had been tied around the throat.

Senior Delhi Police officials were unwilling to come on record, but agreed they had received information regarding the death. They are waiting a report from the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW).

The police suspect that Tunda may have been killed by his one-time associate and now rival Zakir-ur-Rahman of the ISI-funded terrorist outfit Lashkar-e-Toiba. The other possibility is that ISI itself engineered the killing because Tunda's involvement in terrorist activities in India had been established and that his arrest would reveal his links.

Tunda's name surfaced after the arrest of his henchman Kamran on February 28 this year in connection with the Delhi blasts.