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  Yakub Memon's hanging third in three years

  India | July 30, 2015 11:28 IST

  New Delhi:  Mumbai serial blasts convict Yakub Memon on Thursday became the third person to be hanged till death in India in the last three years, a report said.According to a National Crime Record Bureau

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  Attorney general calls Yakub Memon a 'traitor'

  India | July 29, 2015 23:49 IST

  New Delhi:  Attorney general Mukul Rohatgi and senior advocate T R Andhyarujina on Wednesday had heated exchanges at the fag end of the hearing on the plea of Yakub Abdul Razak Memon when the former

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  Memon sentenced to death as no political backing: Asaduddin Owaisi

  Politics | July 29, 2015 19:07 IST

  Hyderabad: AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Thursday contended 1993 Mumbai blasts convict Yakub Memon got a death sentence because he did not have any political backing, unlike the killers of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi

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  Gross travesty of justice in Yakub Memon's case: Markandey Katju

  India | July 26, 2015 21:19 IST

  New Delhi: Former Supreme Court judge Justice (Retd.) Markandey Katju today said that there has been “gross travesty of justice” in the case of Yakub Memon, the sole death row convict and a co-conspirator of

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  Salman Khan retracts his tweet on Yakub Memon, renders apology

  Bollywood | July 26, 2015 18:40 IST

  Superstar Salman Khan, after facing flak for opposing 1993 Mumbai Bomb blast convict Yakub Memon, today evening retracted his tweets and said he apologises for creating misunderstanding over the issue.The actor took it to twitter

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  Communal colour being given to Yakub Memon hanging: BJP

  Politics | July 26, 2015 16:25 IST

  New Delhi: The BJP on Sunday said efforts were being made to give a communal colour to the death penalty given to Yakub Memon, convicted in the Mumbai blast case, and asked people not to

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  Security beefed up outside Salman Khan's residence after his tweet on Yakub Memon

  Bollywood | July 26, 2015 16:22 IST

  Mumbai: To avoid any untoward incident following Bollywood superstar Salman Khan's tweets defending Yakub Memon, the death row convict in the 1993 Mumbai blast case, police here have beefed up security outside the actor's residence

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  Yakub Memon praised the secular fabric of India in his 2013 essay

  India | July 25, 2015 13:15 IST

  New Delhi: “The need of the hour is to see that each of us 'WE' must think himself/herself to be a member of one family i.e. India. We must learn to tolerate and love each

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  1993 blasts: Tight security in Mumbai in run up to Yakub Memon's hanging

  India | July 23, 2015 1:37 IST

  Mumbai:  Mumbai Police are making special security arrangements to deal with any possible fallout on law and order front after the hanging of Yakub Memon, convicted in the 1993 serial bomb blasts in the metropolis.Memon's

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  Yakub Memon may not receive his second Masters certificate

  India | July 22, 2015 16:12 IST

  Nagpur:  Mumbai blasts accused Yakub Memon may not live to receive his second masters degree, in Political Science, which he earned while pursuing studies in the Central Prison here, as he is to be hanged

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  After Supreme Court denies relief, Memon submits mercy petition to Governor

  India | July 22, 2015 8:28 IST

  Nagpur:  Yakub Memon, the 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts convict whose curative petition was dismissed by the Supreme Court earlier in the day, submitted a mercy petition for the Maharashtra Governor this evening, in the last-ditch

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  Yakub Menon's verdict: Chronology of events that prove his role in 1993 Bombay blasts

  India | July 21, 2015 18:29 IST

  New Delhi:  A little over 22 years after 13 coordinated blasts rocked Bombay, killing 257 people and injuring over 700, the lone convict on death row in the case --Yakub Abdul Razak Memon—will hang after

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  Supreme Court junks curative petition of Yakub Memon in 1993 blasts case

  India | July 21, 2015 17:49 IST

  New Delhi: Decks were cleared for the hanging this month-end of Yakub Abdul Razak Memon, sole death row convict and a co-conspirator of fugitive Dawood Ibrahim in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case, with the

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  Shiv Sena welcomes Supreme Court decision on Yakub Memon

  Politics | July 21, 2015 17:44 IST

  Mumbai:  The Shiv Sena in Maharashtra today welcomed the Supreme Court's rejection of the curative petition of Yakub Memon, the lone death row convict in the 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blasts case."Prime Minister Narendra Modi has

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  1993 Mumbai blast accused Yakub Memon to be hanged on July 30

  India | July 21, 2015 15:10 IST

  New Delhi: Supreme Court today rejected curative petition of 1993 Mumbai bomb blast convict, Yakub Abdul Razak Memon.Momon will now be hanged on July 30 at Nagpur Central Jail.Memon, a key conspirator with Dawood Ibrahim

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  10 facts to know about Yakub Memon

  India | July 31, 2015 13:43 IST

  New Delhi: The execution of Yakub Memon took place today morning after his mercy plea was rejected by the Supreme Court.Yesterday, Memon's mercy plea was once again rejected by President Pranab Mukherjee.Memon was sent to

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  Comatose for nine years, 2006 train blasts victim dies

  India | July 07, 2015 11:03 IST

  Mumbai : Nine years after being in coma, Parag Sawant, who was injured in the July 11, 2006 Mumbai suburban train serial blasts, died here early Tuesday, officials said.Then aged 27, Sawant was travelling in

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  Dawood Ibrahim's location: Contradictory statements embarrass government

  Politics | May 06, 2015 8:08 IST

  New Delhi: The Indian government has long maintained that 1993 Mumbai serial blasts accused and underworld don Dawood Ibrahim is in Pakistan. Ibrahim figured in almost all the dossiers that have been handed over to

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  Prosecutor in 1993 blasts case welcomes SC judgement on Yakub

  India | April 09, 2015 19:49 IST

  Mumbai: Special Public Prosecutor in 1993 serial bomb blasts case Ujjwal Nikam today welcomed the Supreme Court's decision to dismiss a plea of prime accused Yakub Abdul Razak Memon seeking a review of the death

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  Bail to Zaki-ur Rehman Lakhvi is shocking: Narendra Modi

  Politics | December 19, 2014 15:01 IST

  New Delhi: The release on bail by a Pakistani court of the Mumbai terror attack mastermind was a "shock" to "all those who believe in humanity", Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Friday.A sombre Modi told