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Mumbai blasts convict Yakub Memon moves SC
New Delhi, July 23
Yakub Memon, convicted in
the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts, on Thursday moved the Supreme Court
challenging the death warrant for his execution on July 30.
Seeking
a stay of the execution, Memon sought quashing of the death warrant on
the grounds that due procedure was not followed for issuing it.
The
apex court on Tuesday rejected Memon's curative petition saying that it
was void of merit. On the same day, Memon filed a mercy petition before
the Maharashtra governor seeking commutation of his death sentence into
life imprisonment.
Memon in his petition before the Supreme
Court submitted that death warrant was issued before he could exhaust
all his legal remedies. It was issued and the day of execution for July
30 was fixed even as his curative petition was still pending in the
Supreme Court.
Earlier this year, the apex court had quashed
death warrant issued for two death row convicts in a multiple murder
case on the grounds that it was illegal as procedure was not followed.