SC to hear Yakub Memon's final plea for life at 10:30 am tomorrow
July 27, 2015 13:42
The Supreme Court has postponed the hearing on 1993 Mumbai serial blasts
convict Yakub Memon's final plea challenging the death warrant against
him to 10:30 am tomorrow.
Maharashtra Governor Ch Vidyasagar Rao, yesterday, held consultations with Home and Law Department officials over the petetion.
CM
Devendra Fadnavis-led BJP government had sent its opinion to the
Governor late Friday evening on the plea submitted by Memon following
the Supreme Court's rejection of his curative petition which sought a
stay on execution of his death sentence slated for July 30.
The
government, however, had earlier indicated that it stood for sticking
to the schedule for hanging and abide by the Supreme Court's directions
on the matter.
Memon, in his petition, has said
that all legal remedies have not been exhausted and he has also
approached the Maharastra Governor with a plea for mercy.
He
had filed the mercy plea before the Governor immediately after his
curative petition was dismissed by the apex court last week.
A
three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice HL Dattu had on July 21
rejected Memon's plea saying that the grounds raised by him does not
fall within the principles laid down by the apex court in 2002 in
deciding the curative petition, the last judicial remedy available to an
aggrieved person.
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