The mastermind of 'Rising Kashmir' editor Shujaat Bukhari's murder, Sajjad Gul, had completed MBA from a private institute in Bengaluru and also trained as a laboratory technician. He was arrested in 2002 for planning bomb blasts in Delhi and sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment. After his release, the Lashkar-e-Taiba operative went to J&K and later got settled in Pakistan.