1993 Mumbai Blasts Convict Yakub Memon Hanged In Nagpur Jail; Funeral To Be Held In Mumbai

by Abbas Adil

 

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Nagpur: Yakub Memon, 1993 Mumbai blasts convict, was hanged today morning in the Nagpur central jail after Supreme Court at 5 am rejected his last-minute petition to stop his hanging after an unprecedented middle-of-the-night hearing.

Yakub Memon’s body will be taken to Mumbai for his funeral and would be accompanied by 7 of his family members. Security has been increased at the Marine Lines Muslim Cemetry in Mumbai.

Memon was sent to the gallows on his 53rd birthday inside a jail complex for his role in the country’s deadliest bomb attacks that killed at least 257 people in Mumbai in 1993,

Justice Dipak Misra, heading a three-judge bench, in an order in Court Room 4 which was opened for an unprecedented 90-minute hearing that started at 3.20 AM and ended a little before dawn said “Stay of death warrant would be a travesty of justice. The plea is dismissed”.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday had dismissed the petition of Yakub Memon, rejecting his argument that correct procedure was not followed in issuance of death warrant by TADA Court on April 30 for his execution on July 30.

President Pranab Mukerjee also rejected the mercy plea of Yakub Memon at the eleventh hour on Wednesday

Memon, a chartered accountant was found guilty of criminal conspiracy, arranging money for buying vehicles used by the bombers and organising air tickets to Dubai for some of them.

Meanwhile Mumbai Police have taken preventive action in the wake of the Yakub Memon hanging. Around 300 persons have been taken into preventive custody.

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