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Rohatgi stated there needed to be “some finality” within the case.

Tiger Memon a prime accused in Mumbai serial blasts of 1993 has rang his family shortly before hanging Yakub Memon, an accused in the case and brother of Tiger Memon.

“My hanging has been politicised”. Now 59, Ajmera said the blast broke his ribs and forced him to undergo about 20 surgeries that have cost him thousands of dollars.

The apex body of editors of news channels in India has expressed its dismay over the latest notices reportedly issued to three channels – ABP News, Aajtak and NDTV – on the questionable pretext that their coverage pertaining to Yakub Memon’s death sentence...

A case has been registered by the Delhi police who started investigating the letter.

In November 2012, India executed a militant convicted for a 2008 attack by militant gunmen on Mumbai’s landmark Taj Hotel and other targets that killed 166 people, ending what many had seen as an undeclared moratorium on capital punishment.

Yakub Memon has been hanged in Nagpur Central Jail on Thursday, July 30.

India on Thursday executed convicted bomb plotter Yakub Memon for his role in a series of coordinated attacks that killed hundreds of people in Mumbai in 1993.

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

There was tight security around the Nagpur prison on Thursday morning, and in parts of the state capital, Mumbai.

Hurriyat said that the hanging of the Yakub Mamon has reopened the wounds of the Kashmiri nation and today the memories of the Shaheed Mohammad Maqbool Bhat and Mohammad Afzal Gooru are badly striking our hearts and minds who were hanged for no crime and whose dead bodies too...

It looks like ghost of Afzal Guru who was hanged in 2013, returns to haunt Modi-led government which is in the power both at the Centre and in the Jammu and Kashmir.

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

Moderate faction of Hurriyat Conference led by Mirwaiz Umar Farooq said the established norms of justice were blatantly ignored in the case.

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...