NEW DELHI: The Indian Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected the curative petition of Yakub Memon, the lone death row convict in the 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blasts case.
Memon, a chartered accountant, is the brother of fugitive terror mastermind Ibrahim Mushtaq ‘Tiger’ Memon.
According to the Indian intelligence agency CBI, which investigated the case, Tiger Memon got Yakub involved in planning and plotting the serial blasts that killed 257 people and injured about 700 on March 12, 1993.
Yakub was sentenced to death by a designated TADA court in 2007 after it found him guilty of playing a key role in the criminal conspiracy. The CBI alleged the blasts were planned by Dawood Ibrahim, Tiger Memon and others.
Indian President Pranab Mukherjee turned down Memon’s mercy plea last year.
The Maharashtra government will hang Yakub Memon at 7am on July 30.
