According to the new petition, the death warrant – which orders his hanging issued recently, is illegal because it did not follow proper procedure.
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Yesterday, a three-judge Supreme Court bench headed by Chief Justice H L Dattu had rejected Memon’s curative petition, saying the grounds raised by him do not fall within the principles laid down by the apex court in 2002.
He is likely to be be hanged in the Nagpur Central Jail, where he is now lodged, following the rejection of his mercy plea in April this year by the President. His legal advisors added that the warrant was issued before he depleted every single legitimate alternative accessible to him, which is against the tenets.
Anil Gedam and Shubal Farooqui along with Cousin Usman Memon decided to file the petition after meeting Memon.
An Indian man found guilty of financing deadly bombings in Mumbai in 1993 has made a last-ditch appeal to the Supreme Court to suspend his execution.
He and two of his brothers were convicted in 2006 by a specially designated court using controversial anti-terror legislation that was introduced after the 1993 bomb blasts and is no longer on the statute books.
More than 22 years after the nation’s commercial capital, then known as Bombay, was rocked by a dozen coordinated blasts that left 257 dead and over 700 injured, the Supreme Court has finally cleared the decks for the execution of “the driving spirit” behind the blasts, Yakub Abdul Razak Memon.
Both have been on the run since 1993 and Yakub Memon is the only one of the 11 convicted to have had his death sentence upheld on appeal.
A total of eight members of the Memon family were initially accused of masterminding the bombings and dispersing funds for the attacks.
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Yakub was arrested on August 6, 1994 when he arrived at Delhi Airport from Khatmandu. He had claimed he felt remorse and wanted to surrender.
