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In another, the 70-year-old governor said intelligence kepeing a tab on Memon’s mouners is preventing terror.

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...

India has executed Yakub Memon, the man convicted of financing the deadly 1993 Mumbai bombings, the Maharashtra state government has confirmed. Almost two hours later, they decided that Memon had been given “ample opportunity” to challenge his death sentence, and that...

It seems the main opposition Congress is divided over the death sentence to the 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts convict Yakub Memon.

In 2007, he was convicted and sentenced to death under the Terrorist and Disruptive Activities Act (TADA), a law that contained provisions incompatible with worldwide fair trial standards.

Yakub Memon was hanged a little before 7 am this morning in a Nagpur prison, less than two hours after the Supreme Court dismissed his final appeal against his hanging in an unprecedented hearing that was held within the court premises in the middle of the night. Hours before the...

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.