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Yakub had said he was hanging for his brother's sins: Lawyer

| | Jul 31, 2015, at 08:13 pm
#Yakub Memon # 1993 Mumbai blasts # Nagpur Central Jail
Mumbai, July 31 (IBNS): Yakub Memon, who was hanged on Thursday morning in Nagpur Central Jail for his role in the 1993 Mumbai blasts, had told his lawyers that he was being executed for his brother Tiger's sins.
"Yakub kept repeating that he was going to be hanged for his brother's sins, if at all, and that he had not done anything wrong," Yakub's Nagpur lawyer Anil Gedam told media.
 
The lawyer also said that Yakub still had hopes that President Pranab Mukherjee would pardon him even after the Supreme Court had rejected his plea against the death row.
 

His execution came on a day when he turned 53 years.


Yakub, who perhaps was being torn between hopes and despair in the last few hours of his life as the Supreme Court opened at 3 am for an unprecedented hearing on his petition to stop execution, was finally hanged a little before 7 am.

Yakub was buried in a graveyard in Mahim in Mumbai amid heavy security.

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