Yakub Memon Hanged in Nagpur

Yakub Memon, the key personality and main convict behind Mumbai 1993 serial bomb blasts case is hanged to death at Nagpur Central Jail today morning. As per reports from Nagpur, the dead body of Yakub Memon will be handed over to his family members in Nagpur after the completion of postmortem procedure. At 11 AM, the dead body will be air flown from Nagpur to Mumbai for final rites.

Coincidentally, today is the 54th birthday of Memon and it also happened to be his last day of living where as his daughter is turning 21 tomorrow. May be it happened for the first time in history of Indian judiciary that a case has been come to repeated hearing and three judge Supreme Court bench was hearing a plea at 3:30 AM in the midnight. Apex court rejected Yakub Memon’s last plea stating that it would be a travesty of justice to stay the death warrant.  

With neither the President of India Pranab Mukherjee nor Maharashtra Home Minister Vidyasagar Rao accepting the mercy petition filed by Memon’s brothers, finally the death has come as Jail authorities executed him exactly 7:00 AM and declared dead at 7:01 AM. Tight security has been arranged across India at all the sensitive areas.