SC likely to deliver verdict on Yakub Memon's plea today
July 29, 2015  13:24
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The Supreme Court has hinted that Yakub Memon's verdict will be delivered today itself.


The Mumbai serial blasts convict has filed a fresh mercy petition with the President.

A three-judge bench of the Supreme Court has started hearing the plea of Yakub Memon.

Starting his arguments, Yakub's lawyer R Ramachandran has questioned the validity of the SC bench which heard curative petition.


His lawyer also said that Memon's good conduct in jail should be taken into consideration and the fact that he was suffering from schizophrenia.

On Tuesday, after an hour-long argument on Yakub's petition seeking stay of execution, the two judges on the bench - Justices AR Dave and Kurian Joseph - returned a split verdict. Justice Dave dismissed Yakub's petition while Justice Joseph stayed the execution, leaving Yakub dangling between hope and despair.

The bench then referred the matter to the Chief Justice of India for a fresh hearing by an umpire bench. Justice Joseph requested Justice Dave that the bench should stay the execution till further orders by the new bench, but Justice Dave said, "I will not be a party to such an order."

Chief Justice H L Dattu had entrusted the matter to a bench of Justices Dipak Misra, P C Pant and Amitava Roy.
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