1993 Mumbai Blast Case

Who is Yakub Memon: Here's all you need to know about the 1993 Mumbai blasts convict

The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed the curative plea filed by 1993 Mumbai blasts convict Yakub Memon, paving the way for his hanging on 30 July.

End of the road for Yakub Memon: President rejects 1993 blasts convict's mercy plea

Yakub Memon, facing gallows in the 1993 Mumbai blasts case, is all set to be executed on Thursday morning at 7 with the Supreme Court on Wednesday clearing all legal hurdles by holding that there was "no legal fallacy" and "fault" in the death warrant issued against him.

BJP welcomes SC verdict on Yakub Memon, calls those opposed to sentence as 'mentally challenged'

BJP on Wednesday welcomed the Supreme Court verdict rejecting the plea of Yakub Memon, the lone death row convict in the 1993 Mumbai blasts case, to escape the gallows, and said justice has been finally delivered to the victims.

Support for Yakub Memon's mercy plea grows as eminent personalities urge President Mukherjee to reconsider

Eminent lawyer Ram Jethmalani and leaders from four political parties were among around 200 people who on Sunday urged President Pranab Mukherjee to reconsider the mercy plea of the 1993 Mumbai blasts convict Yakub Memon, set to hang in Nagpur on 30 July.

Gross travesty of justice in case of Yakub Memon: Justice Markandey Katju

Former Supreme Court judge Justice (Retd.) Markandey Katju on Sunday said that there has been "gross travesty of justice" in the case of Yakub Memon, the sole death row convict and a co-conspirator of fugitive Dawood Ibrahim in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts.

BJP hits out at Owaisi for doing 'communal politics' over Yakub Memon's death penalty

BJP on Friday hit out at AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi for remarks suggesting that Mumbai blasts convict Yakub Memon was awarded capital punishment because of his religion, alleging that he was doing "communal politics" over terrorism and nothing could be "uglier" than this.

After filing mercy plea to Maha Guv, Yakub Memon moves SC to stay death penalty

Yakub Abdul Razak Memon, the sole death row convict in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case, on Thursday moved the Supreme Court seeking stay of execution of his death sentence scheduled for 30 July on the ground that all legal remedies have not been exhausted.

Abu Salem moves SC against conviction in Jain murder case

A month after the special TADA court here sentenced extradited gangster Abu Salem to a life imprisonment in builder Pradeep Jain murder case, he has moved the Supreme Court with an appeal.