Justices Dipak Misra, Amitav Roy and Prafulla Pant had ruled that Memon's execution will not be stopped after going through his petition at 3.20 a
The three judges who rejected Yakub Memon's last minute appeal in the pre-dawn hearing have been given additional security, reports NDTV. Memon was hanged was in a Nagpur jail at 7.00 am on Thursday.
Justices Dipak Misra, Amitav Roy and Prafulla Pant had ruled that Memon's execution will not be stopped after going through his petition at 3.20 am. The hearing ended at 4.50 am. The judges said that Memon had plenty of time and opportunity to challenge his death sentence before Wednesday. They added that Memon, as a death row prisoner, had used up all legal options present before him.
The execution of Yakub, whom the Supreme Court had described as the "driving spirit" behind the 12 coordinated blasts on March 12, 1993, that left 257 dead and 713 wounded, was preceded by a vigorous last-gasp attempt by his lawyers to prevent the hanging that continued through Wednesday and spilled over to the early hours of today.
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Earlier on Wednesday three-judge bench of the Supreme Court had rejected his petition seeking a stay on execution and found no infirmities in the apex court's dismissal of his curative petition, Memon filed a fresh mercy plea before the President Pranab Mukherjee. Earlier in the day, the President, as per the norm, forwarded the petition to the government. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Singh and the top officials deliberated on the issue and advised Mukherjee to reject Memon's plea. Rajnath Singh himself drove to Rashtrapati Bhavan to communicate the government's decision.
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After this attempt met with failure, Memon's lawyers launched a fresh manoeuvre and rushed to the residence of the Chief Justice HL Dattu with a petition for an urgent hearing to stay the hanging on the ground that 14 days' time is needed to be given to a death row convict to enable him challenge the rejection of his plea and for other purposes. Justice Dattu then constituted a 3-judge bench headed by Justice Dipak Misra, which rejected the last minuted plea.
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