Yakub Memon was hanged at a prison in the western state of Maharashtra at around 6.30 a.m. local time, Indian Home Ministry spokesman Kuldeep Dhatwalia told CNN Thursday. It ended in November 2012, with the execution of Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, the lone surviving gunman in the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks.
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While Babu Bajrangi and Maya Kodnani are accused in the Gujarat riots, Col. Prasad Shrikant Purohit and Swami Aseemanand are accused in the Malegaon blast. “I only hope that Yakub Memon will have a dignified death“.
Hurriyat spokesman said that the secular and democratic claims of India are getting badly exposed day by day and this country is on its way to become a Hindu Rashtra.
During the protest, Rashid also demanded the return of mortal remains of Mohammad Afzal Guru, who was hanged and secretly buried in New Delhi’s Tihar Jail on February 9, 2013 on charges of attacking Indian parliament.
The ruling BJP slammed the leaders opposed to the hanging, Tharoor and Digvijaya Singh were forsaken by the Congress as well, which said it was their “personal views”.
Wednesday overnight and to discover the in the beginning of a lot of time prior to direction were actually jam-packed with tension as the Supreme Court wedged an exceptional all night wonderful listening to at thee.
Mohammad Yasin Malik, chairman of pro-independence Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), while commenting on Memon’s execution said that a message has been sent across that “Indian judiciary is in a hurry when it comes to delivering verdicts against a particular community”.
“Justice has been done; this increased the people’s faith in the judicial process”. You have punished an innocent man for his brother’s act.
Tripura Governor Tathagata Roy has once again stoked a controversy by saying that there is a possibility of potential terrorists attending the funeral of Yakub Memon in Mumbai on July 30.
“I want to ask (Prime Minister) Narendra Modi as to why the killers of Rajiv Gandhi were not hanged?”
“There should be no politics on terror”.
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“Indian authorities often find it convenient to hold up capital punishment as a symbol of their resolve to tackle crime, and choose to ignore more hard and effective solutions like improving investigations, prosecutions and care for victims’ families”, said Aakar Patel.
