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SC may hear plea for putting on hold Memon's execution
New Delhi, July 30
Hearing is likely to place
at Supreme Court on a plea seeking to put on hold the execution of 1993
Mumbai blast convict Yakub Memon by 14 days in the early hours of
Thursday.
Perhaps for the first time, the Supreme Court will be
hearing a petition seeking a stay on the execution of death sentence at
the court premises at such late hours of the night.
Memon's
mercy petition was earlier rejected by the president on Wednesday,
wherein, he raised fresh grounds for clemency -- commuting his death
sentence to life imprisonment.
Justice Dipak Misra headed the
three-judges bench of the apex court which had on Wednesday rejected
Memon's plea seeking stay of the execution slated for Thursday morning
and quashing of the death warrant.
Exercises were earlier are on for constituting a bench to hear a petition by Memon seeking postponement of his death sentence.
In
the early hours of Thursday, a senior registrar of Supreme Court has
reached the residence of Chief Justice of India H.L. Dattu in connection
with exercising related to the hearing of the petition.