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Yakub Memon to be hanged on July 30, SC dismisses curative petition

Yakub Memon to be hanged on July 30, SC dismisses curative petition

| | 21 Jul 2015, 03:59 pm
New Delhi, July 21 (IBNS) Mumbai blasts convict Yakub Memon's curative petition was dismissed by the Supreme Court on Tuesday.

He will be hanged on July 30.

This will be the first execution related to the 1993 serial blasts, in which more than 250 people were killed.

Memon was found guilty of conspiracy in carrying out the blasts.

An  an anti-terror court in Mumbai has reportedly  issued a warrant for the execution of 53-year-old Memon, a chartered accountant by profession, who is currently in the Nagpur jail.

His brother of Ibrahim Memon, better known as Tiger Memon,  is one of the main accused in the case. He has been missing since he left the country in 1993.

 

Image: Wikimedia Commons 

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