Mumbai blasts convict Yakub Memon moves SC again to stop his hanging

Yakub’s family arrived in Nagpur this morning.

On July 21, a three-judge Supreme Court bench headed by Chief Justice HL Dattu had rejected Yakub’s curative petition, saying the grounds raised by him do not fall within the principles laid down by the apex court in 2002.

While the debate over the efficacy of capital punishment continues, most countries have decided to retain it in view of the changing nature of crimes against the state and the society due to increasing menace of terrorism.

Tiger, 52, is considered to be a close aide of the absconder mafia don Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar, and both are declared “wanted absconders” in the same case. He studied in an English medium school, later acquired a B.Com degree and then qualified as a chartered accountant in 1990.

A yr later, he arrange “Mehta & Memon Associates” together with a childhood pal Chetan Mehta. A year later, they parted ways and Memon set up his independent firm, “AR & Sons”, in memory of his father.

This agency proved so profitable that he was conferred the Best CA Award by the Memon group in Mumbai.

He diversified into exports and set up a company, Tejrath global, to export meat and meat products to the Gulf and the Middle East.

A Kashmiri separatist convicted of involvement in a deadly 2001 attack on the Indian parliament was executed in New Delhi in 2013, while the lone surviving gunman from the deadly 2008 Mumbai attacks was hanged in 2012. Yakub was convicted in 2007 by a Mumbai court for financing terror attacks and also making arrangements to train terrorists in Pakistan. Memon has once again sought to delay his hanging by filing a fresh mercy petition before the President, on the plea that the earlier one rejected by the President was filed on his behalf by his brother Suleiman.