Mumbai: Yakub Memon, the lone person to be sentenced for a series of bombings in 1993, is scheduled to be hanged on Thursday morning if President Pranab Mukherjee rejects his final plea for mercy.
According to sources, the Maharashtra government has prepared the Nagpur Central Jail for the execution tomorrow. Memon will be woken up at 3 am, will undergo a medical check-up after he takes a bath. He will be then taken to the hanging yard.
His brother Suleiman and cousin Usman are at the Nagpur jail to meet him.
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President Pranab Mukherjee has sent the fresh mercy petition of 1993 Mumbai-blast accused, Yakub Memon filed today as a last ditch attempt to escape the gallows--to the Home Ministry.
He had rejected Yakub's mercy petition on April 11 2014, which was communicated to him on May 26, 2014.
A three-judge apex court bench headed by Chief Justice had on July 21 rejected Memon's curative petition contending that the grounds raised by him for relief did not fall within principles laid down by the Supreme Court in 2002 in deciding curative pleas.
Over 22 years after the metropolis, then known as Bombay, was rocked by 12 coordinated blasts allegedly masterminded by fugitive underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, Memon, a key conspirator, who was described by the Supreme Court as the "driving spirit" behind the worst terror strike in the city, would be sent to the gallows on July 30.
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Yakub was arrested on August 6, 1994 when he arrived at Delhi Airport from Katmandu. He had claimed he felt remorse and wanted to surrender.
Yakub's elder brother Tiger Memon, a close Dawood associate and some other conspirators, including the fugitive mobster's right hand man Chhota Shakeel, are believed to have taken shelter in Pakistan.
