Yakub Memon, convicted in the March 12, 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts, was hanged till death at the Nagpur Central Jail on Thursday morning, a few hours after the Supreme Court dismissed his last-minute attempt to escape the gallows by rejecting his plea for a stay on the death warrant. Here are the latest developments:
Yakub Memon’s body is expected to reach Mumbai around noon.
Seven family members, including two women, are accompanying Yakum Memon’s body to Mumbai.
1993 Mumbai blasts convict Yakub Memon’s one of the last wishes was fulfilled when he talked to his daughter.
An alert has been sounded in Delhi following Memon’s hanging in Nagpur jail. Delhi Police PRO Rajan Bhagat tells news agency IANS that police personnel are already vigilant and watchful after the terror attack in Punjab and the alert is being maintained.
The execution of Yakub Memon is a “misguided attempt to prevent terrorism”, says Amnesty International India.
#Yakubhanged, a hashtag used by twitteratis to share their views about 1993 Mumbai serial blasts accused Yakun Memon’s execution, is a top trend on Twitter.
Yakub Memon’s body reaches Nagpur airport.
Yakub Memon’s body has been handed over to his brother. Ambulance leaves from Nagpur prison towards airport. ​Memon will be buried in Mumbai.
Security has been tightened in Mumbai in view of the execution of Memon, especially in Mahim area where his family resides and sensitive localities of the metropolis. Top police officers visited Mahim and reviewed the arrangements in the wee hours today.
Criticising Yakub Memon’s execution, Communist Party of India leader D Raja says an eye for an eye cannot be the philosophy of India’s judicial prudence.
Yakub Memon today became the third terror convict to have been sent to the gallows in the last four years.
BJP leader Shahnawaz Hussain says that justice has been delayed but not denied to the victims of 1993 Mumbai terror attacks over the execution of Yakub Memon.
Commenting on 1993 Mumbai terror blast convict Yakub Memon’s execution, Nationalist Congress Party leader Tariq Anwar says implementing capital punishment in ‘peace-loving’ India may not be right.
Yakub Memon’s body to be flown to Mumbai from Nagpur in an air ambulance at 10:45 am.
Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, on Twitter, says he was “saddened by news that our government has hanged a human being. State-sponsored killing diminishes us all by reducing us to murderers too.â€
Shiv Sena says that people who were against 1993 Mumbai terror blast convict Yakub Memon’s execution should know that the country runs only according to the law.
