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About 300 prominent citizens, including at least eight retired judges of the Supreme Court and the Delhi High Court, had urged India’s president to commute Memon’s sentence to life in prison, reflecting what appears to be growing uneasiness in India with the death penalty.

[Irony of Life: 1993 blasts convict Yakub Memon hanged on his birthday].

However, the Apex Court upheld the death sentence and Memon was hanged shortly after, on 30th July, 2015. The tailor said Muslims, who make up about 14 percent of India’s 1.2 billion people but a disproportionately large share of death row inmates, were “being...

Senior Supreme Court lawyer Prashant Bhushan on Thursday questioned the “unseemly hurry” behind the execution of Yakub Memon saying no time was given to the 1993 Mumbai blasts convict to challenge the rejection of his mercy petition.

It was not just the rejection of his mercy plea by President Pranab Mukherjee late Wednesday night that sealed Yakub’s fate, the final seal on his fate came at 4.50 am in Court Room 4 of the apex court which dismissed the fresh petition filed on his behalf.

Salman further tweeted, “Kidhar chupa hai tiger?” The actor feels that it should be Tiger who should be hanged, and not his younger brother who is being made to pay the price of it.

In his petition, Memon said that a lower court’s death warrant is illegal as all the legal remedies available to him under the law have not been exhausted and that he has also approached the Maharastra Governor with a plea for mercy.

Days after the Modi government launched its Digital India program which connects with the masses through the Aadhaar card, now the government has asked the Supreme Court to set up a constitution bench to decide the validity of Aadhaar scheme. “To be frank, question of...