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SC rejects last-minute appeal to defer Yakub Memon's hanging
[HINDUSTANTIMES] A three-judge bench of the Supreme Court rejected early on Thursday morning a desperate plea by Yakub Memon's lawyers for staying the 1993 Mumbai blasts convict's death sentence, just two hours before he was to be hanged.This was the second time that the court had cleared Memon's execution in the last 24 hours. A three-judge bench of the Supreme Court headed by Justice Dipak Misra -- that started hearing a last-minute plea for deferring Memon's execution at 3.20 am -- ruled that Memon had been given enough opportunities. "It will be travesty of justice if the death warrant is stayed in a case of this nature," the court ruled in its verdict delivered at 4.55 am. "There is no question of victory or elation. I have done my duty," Attorney General Mukul Rohtagi said. Posted by: Fred 2015-07-30 |
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