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Supreme Court to hear on Monday Memon's plea for quashing death sentence

| | Jul 24, 2015, at 08:18 pm
New Delhi, Jul. 24 (IBNS) The Supreme Court will hear on Monday the plea of 1993 Mumbai blasts convict Yakub Memon who seeks quashing of his death sentence.

Ahead of his hanging on July 30 Memon filed a petition claiming that relevant  procedure of awarding death sentence was flouted in his case. 

Memon, the first convict sentenced to death row in the one of the worst terror attack cases in the country has said in his pettion that a a lower court's death warrant against him was issued before he exhausted all the legal remedies available to him under the law- which is violation of the existing law.

Memon, an accountant by profession, also filed a mercy petition before the Maharashtra government immediately after his curative petition was dismissed by the apex courton Tuesday.

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