MUMBAI: India has executed Yakub Memon convicted of financing the deadly 1993 Mumbai bombings, the Maharashtra state government has confirmed.
He was hanged at Nagpur prison in the western state under tight security after seven days have passed following the rejection of mercy petition.
It is pertinent to mention here that, as many as 257 people were killed and were allegedly to avenge the killing of Muslims in riots a few months earlier.
India rarely carries out death sentences – only three people have been executed since 1995.
There was tight security around the Nagpur prison on Thursday morning, and in parts of the state capital, Mumbai.
Memon was hanged hours after the supreme court dismissed a final plea to stay the sentence.
The Bombay Stock Exchange, the offices of national carrier Air India and a luxury hotel were among about a dozen targets of the March 1993 blasts.
