Yakub Memon Tied: Thousands Gather To See His Body Who Involved In 1993 Mumbai Bombings

Brother of Tiger Memon, and the mastermind behind the 1993 Mumbai bombings, Yakub Memon tied in the Nagpur central prison at 7a.m. on Thursday, hardly two hours after a Supreme Court Bench rejected his last-ditch attempt to postpone his execution. “He was hopeful until the time the jail superintendent and magistrate read out his death warrant and explained to him the reasons why he was being tied,” said a jail source.

Yakub, a chartered accountant by profession, was executed on the day he turned 53 years old, and a day before his daughter Zubaida was to turn about 22 years. A family source denied rumours in a section of the media that he wished to speak to his daughter before his execution on Thursday. But, he didn’t speak to his daughter, and Yakub Memon tied on prison, without talking to his daughter nor his family members.

While recommending the rejection of the fresh mercy petition of Mumbai serial blasts convict Yakub Memon, hours before he was hanged, the Home Ministry reportedly told President Pranab Mukherjee that there ‘were no cogent circumstances warranting a rethink on it”. So, however Yakub Memon tied on central jail this thursday, being involved in 1993 Mumbai bombings.

Thousands of people have gathered to see Yakub Memon’s dead body near his house in Mumbai on thursday. Over 25,000 police men were deployed all over the city for the security, including 5,000 officers, 12 companies of the State Reserve Police Force and six Quick Response teams. While, a team of 15 security personnel kept guard at the ‘Arrival’ gate of Mumbai airport for the passengers and the terminal where the Yakub Memon’s dead body was received.

Yakub Memon’s entire family is in a state of shock over his execution. “It will take them a long time to accept it. They would have accepted it(of execution) had he really been involved in the blasts. But, they believed that he was innocent and hanged for being a brother of Tiger Memon,” said another family source. And the three-judge Bench had upheld the death warrant against the 1993 Mumbai bombings convict. The Bench also dismissed a petition filed early on Thursday seeking a stay on Yakub Memon’s death warrant.