He added, “This execution will not deliver justice for the 1993 Mumbai blasts”.
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Yakub Memon’s hanging has set the stage for fiery debate.
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. They argue that now that judiciary and Modi govt has failed them, this is their only way of keeping “Idea of Yakub India” alive. Yakub Memon was hanged early Thursday in Nagpur Central Prison after a historic pre-dawn Supreme Court hearing that rejected his 11th hour legal appeal. “I hope he (Memon) has a dignified death“, he said.
“Memon has been hanged, and now government should take firm steps to ensure that no efforts are made to project him as innocent or martyr before the people”, the Sena demanded. “Ignoring the real and actual facts about the case, a person about whom there reportedly was no strong and credible evidence of having direct involvement in the supposed case has been put to death”, a Hurriyat spokesman said here.
Communist Party of India (CPI) leader D Raja, meanwhile, said that the death penalty should be done away with in the country.
“Death sentence should also be given to Babu Bajrangi, Maya Kodnani, Lt Col Purohit and Swami Aseemanand”, he said.
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.
“These people don’t think about national interest”.
Shakeel also questioned the Supreme Court over its final decision which sealed Yakub’s fate in the end, the ToI reported.
Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said justice had been done. Mehdi said the system of justice can not have different interpretations for different people. So maybe… just maybe, the Yakub whom we hanged at 53 was not the Yakub at 31 who aided and abetted his brother to kill and maim hundreds in the city of his birth.
Tripura Governor Tathagata Roy on Friday stoked controversy after he dubbed all those who attended the funeral of 1993 Mumbai blasts convict, Yakub Memon, as “potential terrorists”.
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In another tweet, the 70-year-old former chief of West Bengal BJP, said, “Governors ought to be concerned abt security of state”.
