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Some of the survivors and victims’ family members accepted the jury’s decision.

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...

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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.

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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.

A few days before the execution of Yakub Memon on July 30, the NLU had filed a petition before the apex court challenging the TADA court’s death warrant against him.

Memon was hanged at a prison in Nagpur in the western state. His petition to the President sought mercy; in the Supreme Court, his lawyers argued that judges had not followed due process when upholding his death sentence earlier this week.

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...

“The death sentence was not given to any religion, but to a person who was trying to execute the conspiracy of Pakistan”, he insisted.

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...