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Yakub Memon hanged in Nagpur, buried in Mumbai
India | Jul 30, 2015, 06:05 PM ISTNagpur/New Delhi: Yakub Memon, the lone 1993 Mumbai serial blasts convict whose death sentence was upheld by the Supreme Court, was hanged to death today, capping dramatic last-ditch legal manoeuvres by his lawyers to stall
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Yakub Memon first in 31 years to be executed in Nagpur jail
India | Jul 30, 2015, 01:23 PM ISTNew Delhi: Yakub Memon today became the first convict in 31 years to be hanged to death in Nagpur Jail and the fourth in the country in the last 10 years.53-year-old Memon, convicted in the
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Yakub Memon's hanging third in three years
India | Jul 30, 2015, 11:28 AM ISTNew Delhi: Mumbai serial blasts convict Yakub Memon on Thursday became the third person to be hanged till death in India in the last three years, a report said.According to a National Crime Record Bureau
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Attorney general calls Yakub Memon a 'traitor'
India | Jul 29, 2015, 11:49 PM ISTNew Delhi: Attorney general Mukul Rohatgi and senior advocate T R Andhyarujina on Wednesday had heated exchanges at the fag end of the hearing on the plea of Yakub Abdul Razak Memon when the former
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Memon sentenced to death as no political backing: Asaduddin Owaisi
National | Jul 29, 2015, 07:07 PM ISTHyderabad: AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Thursday contended 1993 Mumbai blasts convict Yakub Memon got a death sentence because he did not have any political backing, unlike the killers of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi
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Gross travesty of justice in Yakub Memon's case: Markandey Katju
India | Jul 26, 2015, 09:19 PM ISTNew Delhi: Former Supreme Court judge Justice (Retd.) Markandey Katju today 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
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Salman Khan retracts his tweet on Yakub Memon, renders apology
Bollywood | Jul 26, 2015, 06:40 PM ISTSuperstar Salman Khan, after facing flak for opposing 1993 Mumbai Bomb blast convict Yakub Memon, today evening retracted his tweets and said he apologises for creating misunderstanding over the issue.The actor took it to twitter
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Communal colour being given to Yakub Memon hanging: BJP
National | Jul 26, 2015, 04:25 PM ISTNew Delhi: The BJP on Sunday said efforts were being made to give a communal colour to the death penalty given to Yakub Memon, convicted in the Mumbai blast case, and asked people not to
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Security beefed up outside Salman Khan's residence after his tweet on Yakub Memon
Bollywood | Jul 26, 2015, 04:22 PM ISTMumbai: To avoid any untoward incident following Bollywood superstar Salman Khan's tweets defending Yakub Memon, the death row convict in the 1993 Mumbai blast case, police here have beefed up security outside the actor's residence
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Yakub Memon praised the secular fabric of India in his 2013 essay
India | Jul 25, 2015, 01:15 PM ISTNew Delhi: “The need of the hour is to see that each of us 'WE' must think himself/herself to be a member of one family i.e. India. We must learn to tolerate and love each
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1993 blasts: Tight security in Mumbai in run up to Yakub Memon's hanging
India | Jul 23, 2015, 01:37 AM ISTMumbai: Mumbai Police are making special security arrangements to deal with any possible fallout on law and order front after the hanging of Yakub Memon, convicted in the 1993 serial bomb blasts in the metropolis.Memon's
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Yakub Memon may not receive his second Masters certificate
India | Jul 22, 2015, 04:12 PM ISTNagpur: Mumbai blasts accused Yakub Memon may not live to receive his second masters degree, in Political Science, which he earned while pursuing studies in the Central Prison here, as he is to be hanged
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After Supreme Court denies relief, Memon submits mercy petition to Governor
India | Jul 22, 2015, 08:28 AM ISTNagpur: Yakub Memon, the 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts convict whose curative petition was dismissed by the Supreme Court earlier in the day, submitted a mercy petition for the Maharashtra Governor this evening, in the last-ditch
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Yakub Menon's verdict: Chronology of events that prove his role in 1993 Bombay blasts
India | Jul 21, 2015, 06:29 PM ISTNew Delhi: A little over 22 years after 13 coordinated blasts rocked Bombay, killing 257 people and injuring over 700, the lone convict on death row in the case --Yakub Abdul Razak Memon—will hang after
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Supreme Court junks curative petition of Yakub Memon in 1993 blasts case
India | Jul 21, 2015, 05:49 PM ISTNew Delhi: Decks were cleared for the hanging this month-end of Yakub Abdul Razak Memon, sole death row convict and a co-conspirator of fugitive Dawood Ibrahim in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case, with the
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Shiv Sena welcomes Supreme Court decision on Yakub Memon
National | Jul 21, 2015, 05:44 PM ISTMumbai: The Shiv Sena in Maharashtra today welcomed the Supreme Court's rejection of the curative petition of Yakub Memon, the lone death row convict in the 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blasts case."Prime Minister Narendra Modi has
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1993 Mumbai blast accused Yakub Memon to be hanged on July 30
India | Jul 21, 2015, 03:10 PM ISTNew Delhi: Supreme Court today rejected curative petition of 1993 Mumbai bomb blast convict, Yakub Abdul Razak Memon.Momon will now be hanged on July 30 at Nagpur Central Jail.Memon, a key conspirator with Dawood Ibrahim
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10 facts to know about Yakub Memon
India | Jul 31, 2015, 01:43 PM ISTNew Delhi: The execution of Yakub Memon took place today morning after his mercy plea was rejected by the Supreme Court.Yesterday, Memon's mercy plea was once again rejected by President Pranab Mukherjee.Memon was sent to
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Comatose for nine years, 2006 train blasts victim dies
India | Jul 07, 2015, 11:03 AM ISTMumbai : Nine years after being in coma, Parag Sawant, who was injured in the July 11, 2006 Mumbai suburban train serial blasts, died here early Tuesday, officials said.Then aged 27, Sawant was travelling in
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Dawood Ibrahim's location: Contradictory statements embarrass government
National | May 06, 2015, 08:08 AM ISTNew Delhi: The Indian government has long maintained that 1993 Mumbai serial blasts accused and underworld don Dawood Ibrahim is in Pakistan. Ibrahim figured in almost all the dossiers that have been handed over to