AIMIM MP Asaduddin Owaisi who said Yakub Memon was being hanged because he was a Muslim says Memon was involved but he did not deserve capital punishment. Owaisi said that the order of the Supreme Court was a huge disappointment and a setback. "Why were the killers of Rajiv Gandhi saved? Capital punishment is being given because there is no political backing," he said.

The Supreme Court today rejected the central government's curative petition and the upheld commutation of the death sentence to life imprisonment of three convicts in former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi's assassination case