A three-member bench of the Supreme Court has rejected 1993 Mumbai
bomb blasts convict Yakub Memon's plea seeking a reconsideration of his death
sentence, paving the way for his execution on July 30.
He will be
hanged at 7.00 am at the Nagpur Central Jail on July 30.
The apex court
said that there was no lapse in the curative petition.
"Issuance
of death warrant cannot be faulted with," said the apex court bench headed
by Justice Dipak Misra, while rejecting Memon's plea.
Pronouncing
the order, Justice Misra said, "we don't find any legal fallacy" with
the issuance of death warrant by the TADA court on April 30.
The court
order came after a day-long hearing on the petition by Memon and also a
reference by two judge-bench on the appropriateness of another bench that had
heard Memon's curative petition and rejected it on July 21, 2015.
Yakub Memon is
the only person to be sentenced to death for a series of bombings in Mumbai in
1993.
Just hours
before Memon was due to be hanged in Nagpur jail on Thursday, his 53rd
birthday, the Supreme Court rejected his last-minute petition.
Senior lawyer
Ujjwal Nikam said, "the SC has rejected all the contentions raised by
Yakub Memon. The Maharashtra Governor and the President will have to take the
decision on the mercy petition today itself."
Memon has
filed a fresh plea with President Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday, seeking
commutation of his death sentence to life imprisonment. The President is likely
to give his opinion on the mercy plea today itself.
Meanwhile,
Maharashtra Governor C V Rao rejected his mercy plea today.
According to
the Sources based on the Tada Court order, Memon is to be hanged up in the jail
at Nagpur for his alleged Role in the deadly terror attack leading to the bomb
blast killing 257 people at various landmark across Mumbai.
Dismissing Memon's petition, Justice Dave said: "Submissions made
about the curative petition do not appeal to me as they are irrelevant and
there is no substance in them. In these circumstances, the writ petition is
dismissed."
Justice Kurien
Joseph, however, said that there had been a clear violation of procedure and
"such technicality should not stand in the way to protect the life of a
person."
Memon had
sought a stay of his death sentence after the apex court had on July 21
rejected his mercy petition.
He moved the
apex court contending that the death warrant for his execution was issued
before he could exhaust the legal remedies available to him. He also sought
that his death sentence be stayed by the apex court
Yakub brother
tiger who is the main accused for the attack is missing since 1993 with his
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