New Delhi: Days after the hanging of Yakub Memon, 1993 Mumbai serial blast convict, a deputy registrar in the Supreme Court has resigned citing his differences with the court’s verdict rejecting the last-ditch plea of Yakub Memon against his death warrant.
On the social media site, he posted: “I have been contemplating this for a while now for a variety of reasons, but what was played out this week at the Supreme Court was the proverbial final nail.”
“I have resigned from my post at the Supreme Court to focus on death penalty work at the University.”
“It is in many ways liberating to regain the freedom to write whatever I want and I hope to make full use of that in the next few days to discuss the events that transpired at the Supreme Court this week.”
Commenting on the execution, he had earlier posted: “It would be silly and naive to see the events of the last 24 hours at the Supreme Court as some triumph of the rule of law – the two orders at 4 p.m. on 29th July and 5 a.m. on 30th July (and the reasoning adopted therein) are instances of judicial abdication that must count amongst the darkest hours for the Supreme Court of India.”