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The Supreme Court today dismissed a curative petition by 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blasts convict Yakub Abdul Razak Memon who will be hanged on July 30.
An apex court bench headed by Chief Justice HL Dattu rejected Memon’s petition challenging an earlier decision to uphold the death sentence.
Yakub Memon, who is currently lodged in the Nagpur central jail, was on July 27, 2007 sentenced to death by Justice (Retd) P D Kode, who was then the special judge of the court set up under the Terrorists and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act in Mumbai. However, his sentence was upheld by a Supreme Court bench headed by then Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan on March 21, 2013.
On April 9 this year, a three-member bench headed by Justice A R Dave rejected the review plea of Yakub. President Pranab Mukherjee had also rejected his mercy petition. An anti-terror court in Mumbai has issued a warrant to carry out the death sentence against 53-year-old Memon, accordingly which he will be hanged at 7 am on July 30 in Nagpur Central Jail.
This will be the first execution related to the 1993 serial blasts, in which over 250 people were killed.