Mumbai: Bollywood superstar Salman Khan in a series of tweets has come out in defence of death row convict in the 1993 Mumbai blast case Yakub Memon and said get the Tiger, hang him instead.
Salman in his tweets said that wrong man is being hung for the crimes of his brother Tiger Memon and asked the Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to send Tiger to India if he was in Pakistan.
Khan said he had been wanting to tweet about the issue for some days but was afraid.
“Get tiger hang him. Parade him not his brother,” the actor tweeted. Tiger Memon is one of the prime suspects in the 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts case.
“1 innocent man killed is killing the humanity,” the actor said.
“Phasisi k phande pe chardne walla hai. Koi statement. Koi address. Kuch toh bolo k tum teh. Wah bhai ho toh aisa. Matlab. Ya khoob menan,” he said.
53-year-old Yakub will hang on the same day as his birthday, July 30.
Memon, whose curative petition against the death sentence awarded by special TADA court was dismissed by the Supreme Court earlier this week, is lodged in Nagpur Central Jail.
After his curative petition was dismissed, Memon has submitted a mercy petition to Maharashtra Governor. The President had earlier rejected his mercy petition.
As many as 257 people were killed and over 700 injured in the serial blasts in Mumbai on March 12, 1993.