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Mumbai serial blasts convict Yakub Memon asks Supreme Court to stop his hanging

| | Jul 23, 2015, at 05:12 pm
New Delhi, Jul 23 (IBNS) Yakub Memon, who is to be hanged on July 30 for his involvement in the 1993 Bombay blasts, has appealed to the Supreme Court to stop his execution, saying the lower court's death warrant is illegal, reports said.

Yakub's lawyer told Supreme Court that the  warrant issued by a trial court did not follow procedure and guidelines.

He cited  a case in May when the death warrants of an Uttar Pradesh couple were cancelled.

The Supreme Court had then said that such warrants cannot be issued unless the convict has exhausted all legal options.

Yakub's petition says a death warrant was issued against him even before he could exhaust his last legal remedy - a curative petition.

The apex court rejected Memon's curative petition on Tuesday.

Yakub was found guilty of planning and financing the serial blasts in one of the worst terror attacks in the country,in which about  260 people were killed .
 

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