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<a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=yakub+memon">Yakub Memon</a>, who was hanged in <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=nagpur+jail">Nagpur jail</a> on Thursday, was buried alongside his father’s tomb. 
 
His body was handed over to his family members in Mumbai. 
 
Memon, 1993 <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=mumbai+blasts">Mumbai blasts</a> convict, was hanged at 6.35 am after the Supreme Court dismissed his curative petition and <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=pranab+mukherjee">President Pranab Mukherjee</a> rejected his mercy petition on July 29. 
 
Hours before his hanging, Memon offered namaz and read the holy Quran and was provided with a fresh set of clothes. 
 
Nagpur’s Chief judicial magistrate M M Deshpande was present and she read out the operating part of the TADA court order which awarded capital punishment to Memon before he was made to stand on a stool and the lever pulled by the hangman. 
 
A team of doctors declared him dead and a post-mortem was conducted by a team from a Nagpur hospital. 
 
Ironically, Memon, who was a chartered accountant by profession, was hanged on his birthday. He turned 53 today. 
 
He had reacted with an angry outburst saying "innocent people are being called terrorists" when a TADA court here had pronounced him guilty on September 12, 2006. 
 
After hearing the verdict, he had said, "We do not want to engage lawyers to argue on quantum of sentence...13 years have passed and innocent people are being called terrorists." 
 
Blasts in Mumbai, then known as Bombay, in 1993 had killed 257 people and Memon was convicted as the "driving spirit" behind the serial blasts in India's financial capital. 
 
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Yakub Memon buried with Islamic rites

After an unprecedented midnight hearing by the <keyword id="6354977" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="Supreme-Court">Supreme Court</keyword> that began at 3 am and concluded at 5 am, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/Government-advises-President-to-reject-Yakub-Memons-plea/articleshow/48266883.cms">Yakub Memon</a> was finally hanged at the Nagpur jail at 7 this morning. His hanging was preceded by plenty of political and legal movements through the day and night. At 10 last night President <keyword id="6359124" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Pranab-Mukherjee">Pranab Mukherjee</keyword> had rejected <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/10-worst-terrorist-attacks-to-rock-India/articleshow/48237865.cms">Yakub</a> Memon’s <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/Top-5-most-wanted-terrorists-in-India-that-still-roam-free/articleshow/48100097.cms">mercy plea</a> which was followed by a last ditch effort by his lawyers who then filed a mercy petition with the Supreme Court at 11 pm last night. 
 
In a first, the Supreme Court was opened for the judges to hear the matter at 3 am. The final petition was heard by a three judge bench which included the Chief Justice of India, HL Dattu in court number four at the apex court. After a 90 minute hearing the three judge bench unanimously rejected Yakub’s plea stating that enough and more chances were given to him to put forth his case. 
 
Section 144 has been imposed in areas around the Nagpur jail where Yakub was <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/The-worlds-mostinfamous-terrorists-and-the-ends-they-met/articleshow/48172442.cms">hanged</a>. His body is expected to be flown to Mumbai and handed over to his relatives at 11 this morning. Meanwhile, a thick blanket of security has been thrown over Mumbai with special focus on sensitive areas like the residence where the Memons reside. The case that has been going for over 22 years has been a hot bed of controversy forever. However this is one of those rare cases where the political classes have been united in seeking Yakub’s hanging across the board barring only the CPI. 
 
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BREAKING NEWS: YAKUB MEMON HANGED

Just as the clock struck 12, <keyword id="383370" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Yakub-Memon">Yakub Memon</keyword>’s family sent him a cake by a jail authority. On July 30, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/BREAKING-NEWS-YAKUB-MEMON-HANGED/articleshow/48275886.cms">Yakub Memon</a> turned 53. 
Few people suffer the state of being hanged to death on the same day as he was born. Yakub Memon, one of the key accused in the 1993 serial <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/10-worst-terrorist-attacks-to-rock-India/articleshow/48237865.cms">Mumbai</a> blast case was hanged to death a little before 7 am at the <keyword id="4072" type="COMPANY" weightage="100" keywordseo="Nagpur">Nagpur</keyword> jail today. 
 
 
Yakub met his relatives on July 29 where he is said to have cried seeking forgiveness from his family. A moist eyed Yakub even bid farewell to his jailmates refusing the ceremonial health check-up meted out to a <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/Top-5-most-wanted-terrorists-in-India-that-still-roam-free/articleshow/48100097.cms">convict</a> who will be <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/The-worlds-mostinfamous-terrorists-and-the-ends-they-met/articleshow/48172442.cms">hanged</a>. 
 
 
A few weeks ago when Yakub met his daughter at Hawaii, he apparently told them that he was ready to meet his fate. He also told them that if he ever walked free his first wish as a free man would be to build a school. Yakub Memon ‘s fate at the galore was sealed for the last time at 5 am this morning when the Supreme Court, after an unprecedented 90-minute long hearing that began at 3 am, rejected his final mercy plea. 

	 
	 
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Yakub Memon: Hanged on the day he was born

The Indian government has advised President Pranab Mukherjee to reject Mumbai serial blasts convict <keyword id="383370" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Yakub-Memon">Yakub Memon</keyword>’s mercy petition. 
 
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Rajnath Singh, Home Secretary L C Goyal and a few other top official gathered at the PM’s residence, and came to the conclusion that the president should reject Memon’s plea. 
 
<a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=yakub+memon">Yakub Memon</a>, 1993 Mumbai blasts convict, is set be hanged after the <keyword id="6354977" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="Supreme-Court">Supreme Court</keyword> on Wednesday rejected his curative petition and dismissed all the contention raised by him. 
 Special Public Prosecutor <keyword id="73359" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Ujjwal-Nikam">Ujjwal Nikam</keyword> informed that the apex court said that the curative petition was rightly dismissed. 
 
“SC has clearly held that death warrant issued to Yakub is legal and valid,” said Nikam. 
 
Memon will be hanged on July 30 at 7am at Nagpur jail. He had filed mercy petitions with with Maharashtra Governor and <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=pranab+mukherjee">President Pranab Mukherjee</a> also. 
 
However, Maharashtra Governor Vidyasagar Rao also rejected his mercy petition. Now, all eyes are set on Mukherjee, whose final decision would be binding. 
 
“There is no hurdle in the way of execution now,” said senior lawyer, KTS Tulsi. 
 
Memon had claimed he was suffering from schizophrenia since 1996 and has remained behind bars for nearly 20 years. 
 
He sought commutation of his death sentence to life imprisonment. 
 
A series of blasts had rocked Mumbai on March 12, 1993, leaving 257 dead and over 700 injured. 
 
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Government advises President to reject Yakub Memon's plea

A <keyword id="49315" type="POSITION" weightage="60" keywordseo="Police-constable">police constable</keyword>, who executed <keyword id="118788" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="26/11-Mumbai-attacks">26/11 Mumbai attacks</keyword> terrorist <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Ajmal+Kasab+">Ajmal Kasab</a> in 2012, on Thursday hanged <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Yakub+Memon">Yakub Memon</a>, the lone <keyword id="541681" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="1993-Mumbai-serial-blasts">1993 Mumbai serial blasts</keyword> convict. 
 
The Yerwada jail constable’s identity has been kept under wraps due to security reasons. He arrived at the <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Central+Prison+">Central Prison</a> in <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Nagpur+">Nagpur</a> a week before as part of a 20-member team of prison personnel from Pune, reported PTI. 
 
He had pulled the lever to hang Kasab on November 21, 2012 at Yerwada in Pune. 
 Moreover, <keyword id="2488158" type="POSITION" weightage="80" keywordseo="Yerwada-Jail-Superintendent">Yerwada Jail Superintendent</keyword>, <keyword id="984189" type="PERSON" weightage="80" keywordseo="Yogesh-Desai">Yogesh Desai</keyword>, who led the team during Kasab's execution, was transferred to the Nagpur Central Prison a few months back, to oversee Yakub's hanging. 
 
The constable executed the hanging with "clinical precision", said jail officials. 
 
To assist the hangman, another constable from Yerwada was brought in Nagpur a week ago and trained with two others. The other members of the team were entrusted with the task of preparing the drop and the platform in the execution yard (Fansi Yard). 
 
Nagpur and Yerwada are the two Central Prisons in <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Maharashtra+">Maharashtra</a> equipped with the hanging facility. 
 
The previous execution at Nagpur jail was carried out in 1984, when two brothers from Amravati had been hanged for murder. 
 
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Meet the guy who put the noose around Yakub Memon

Superstar <keyword id="6354583" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Salman-Khan">Salman Khan</keyword> whose latest release Bajrangi Bhaijaan has become this year’s <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/Bajrangi-Bhaijaan-the-highest-grosser-of-2015/articleshow/48145585.cms">highest grossing movie</a> is in news, yet again for all the wrong reasons. The actor took to social networking site Twitter to show his ‘concern’ for Yakoob Memon, saying that hanging him was wrong and he is being punished for his brother Tiger’s misdeeds. 
 
The series of tweets has sparked a national controversy, not only because of Memon’s involvement in the 1993 serial Bombay blasts, but also because of Salman’s own <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/ITS-BAIL-FOR-SALMAN-KHAN-But-first-he-must-surrender-before-the-Sessions-Court/articleshow/47200010.cms">criminal record</a>, when in 2002, he drunk-drove his car over some people sleeping on the pavement of a Mumbai road, killing 1 and injuring 4 others. The actor also <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/SalmanVerdict-Salman-Khangets-48-hours-interim-bail-till-May-8/articleshow/47176350.cms">fled the scene</a> and years later, claimed that it was his driver who was sitting behind the wheels on that fateful night. 
 <keyword id="31016" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Salim-Khan">Salim Khan</keyword>, celebrated scriptwriter and Salman’s father has said that Salman is ignorant of the matter and whatever he has written is ridiculous and meaningless. He also said that the actor’s stand should not be taken too seriously. 
 
However, this is not the first time that Salman has stepped on the ‘unfavourable’ side of his fans and the politicians as well. It was after the unfortunate 26/11 attacks that the actor had sparked controversies by saying, "Too much hype has been created around the 26/11 attacks because elite people were targeted. Attacks have happened in trains and small towns too, but no one talked about it so much. Everybody took this up because the Taj and Oberoi hotels were involved." 
 
The actor later apologised for the same and cleared his stand, saying that he meant to point out why such intense reactions weren’t conjured during other times that Mumbai faced serial blasts, including the 7/11 serial blasts in the local trains. 
 
Well, all we have to say is that for Salman Khan, it would be better if he doesn’t use <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/Salman-Khan-scolds-Twitter-followers-like-a-Bhai/articleshow/47612143.cms">social media</a> to express his opinions on grave issues, and keeps on entertaining us in the form of movies like <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/Why-is-Bajrangi-Bhaijaan-unlike-every-other-Salman-Khan-movie/articleshow/48112256.cms'">Bajrangi Bhaijaan</a>, because his ridiculous and meaningless opinions don’t go down too well with anyone, be it his fans or the authorities. 
 
On another note, his latest release Bajrangi Bhaijaan is also facing some legal troubles. <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/Bajrangi-Bhaijaan-in-legal-trouble-over-Bhar-Do-Jholi-song/articleshow/48188454.cms">Read more</a>. 
 
Picture by <a href="http://media.indiatimes.in/media/content/2011/Dec/4df4e5f9-dbce-4e16-b919-7b5398563f82_1324899499_460x460.jpg">IndiaTimes</a>

This is not
the first time that Salman has said ‘ridiculous and meaningless’ things about matters
of national security

1. Akin to the Shakespearean dilemma, ‘To Be or not to be’, the debate of retention of <keyword id="134562" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="capital-Punishment">Capital punishment</keyword> is again raging, an after-effect of the <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/Yakub-Memon-buried-with-Islamic-rites/articleshow/48283186.cms">Yakub Memon’s hanging</a> (on a charge upheld up to the Curative petition level, where an aggrieved person is entitled to any relief against the final judgement/order of the <keyword id="6354977" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="Supreme-Court">Supreme Court</keyword>, after dismissal of a review petition in order to prevent injustice by law, as also yet another pre-dawn opportunity afforded by an Apex Bench). Inexplicably enough, the debate stays placid for indefinite duration till it is time for the convict to meet his final end. 

	2. Whenever the topic is debated, the protagonists of Human Rights raise the following points. Life being a gift of the Almighty, a human being has no right to decimate it. It would be catastrophic if evidence surfacing <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/Yakub-Memon-Hanged-on-the-day-he-was-born/articleshow/48276475.cms">post-execution</a> is indicative of innocence of the person executed. 
 

	3. The rival mindsets have been straining their vocal chords to hawk their ‘wares’ but each one of them has missed a point which is fundamental to the issue. 
 4. These premises are flawed to the very core of its foundation. It is not that the execution comes about just like that. The initial conviction is recorded by the <keyword id="3017606" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Court-of-Sessions">Court of Sessions</keyword> after a regular trial during the course of which full defense evidences are considered too. The recommendation for the Capital punishment is forwarded to the <keyword id="6355392" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="High-Court">High Court</keyword> and is heard by a Division Bench. In case of acceptance of the recommendation, the convict can file a Special Leave Petition (SLP) against the orders of the High Court. That (SLP) too would be heard by at least a two-Judge Bench of the <keyword id="6356229" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="apex-court">Apex Court</keyword>, which can be followed up by a Review Petition and a Curative Petition, both of which are considered by the judges of the Apex Court. The final judicial determination is thus preceded by adequate grant of opportunity of hearing at all hierarchical levels upto the Apex Court. In the following of that due course of Law, there is no likelihood of any error in the appreciation of fixture of liability of the convict. 

	5. My experience (as a lawyer) of more than four decades tells me that the extinction of Capital punishment would put the country into a perilous scenario. While certainly not recommending Capital Punishment to be awarded for a mere murder charge, I am of the distilled view that retention of capital punishment is a must for the society. That it should be granted only in cases falling within the ‘Rarest of the rare’ category is a legitimate view with respect to the current societal scenario. 
 

	6. A law answering the societal requirement is the best tool for governance. Being oppressed under the yoke of colonialism for a fairly long duration, a large segment of the countrymen is still not liberated from prejudices of religion / caste / region. The trust gap between the establishment and the ‘governed’, as also between the predominant communities, has widened. ‘Flourishing’ sex determination clinics reiterate the pronounced preference for a sex ‘fixation’, thereby adding to the marked decline of the female population. Differences between the rich and deprived have increased beyond redemption. Moreover, Indian youth has fallen victims to the evils of internet. 
 

	7. Why else would it appear as if the gang rapes are here to stay? Why else would a spouse forward his/her life partner to the maker in violation of the seven steps taken around the holy fire? Why else would juveniles exhibit demeaning and beastly acts against a woman? Why would the ‘honour killing’ phenomenon persist? The want of fear of law and the ‘ability’ to delay trial by taking advantage of the changes of procedural law appear to contribute to the unceasing disquiet in the society. The level of ‘emboldenment’ of the perverted mindsets cannot even be imagined, if the abolition of Capital punishment were to come about.
 

	8. In my distilled view, Capital punishment must stay on statute book, atleast till our mindsets attain intellectual ‘puberty’. 
	 
	(The author is Justice SD Anand, a retired Justice of the Haryana and Chandigarh High Court.)

	 
	 
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Retention of Capital Punishment – A distilled view

Ahead of <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=independence+day">Independence Day</a>, the government has issued a detailed advisory, directing states and Union Territories to beef up the <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=security">security</a>. 
 
The seven-page advisory, which is little different from every year, has details keeping in mind the execution of Mumbai blasts convict <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=yakub+memon">Yakub Memon</a>, who was hanged on July 30. 
 
The government has mentioned the possibility of attacks by <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Pakistan+terror+groups">Pakistan-sponsored terror groups</a>. 
 
It states specific security threats including a <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=lashkar">Lashker-e-Taiba</a> (LeT plan to hijack or blow up an Air India flight on the Kabul-Delhi-Kabul sector and <keyword id="44984" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="Al-Qaeda">al-Qaeda</keyword>'s designs to hit Indian naval facilities including the Karwar <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=india+navy">naval base</a> (INS Kadamba), the Southern Naval Command in Kochi (INS Venduruthy) and Mumbai-based Western Naval Command. 
 "<keyword id="28240" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Independence-day">Independence Day</keyword> function ... provides an attractive target for various militant, terrorist outfits ... and rabid communal elements due to high publicity value and concentrated presence of dignitaries," the advisory stated. 
 
Security has been beefed up at <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=BJP">BJP</a> offices, commercial, aviation, tourist and railway facilities, as the advisory highlighted al-Qaida's plans to target these places. 
 
The Independence Day alert cites the continuous flow of <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=intelligence+input">intelligence inputs</a> regarding specific threat of terror attacks by LeT, Jaish-e-Mohammad and even <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=al+qaeda">al-Qaeda</a>. 
 
It points out a LeT plot to target Mumbai or Gujarat around September or October, while a March alert speaks of possible fidayeen attacks in Delhi and J&amp;K. 
 
In view of the terror threats, the security agencies have asked the forces and state police to maintain "strict access control and anti-sabotage checks" besides intensifying patrolling and keeping strict vigil at railway stations and tracks, bus stands, airports and entry points. 
 
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Independence Day security: Hawk eye on Air India flights, naval bases

According to <keyword id="104489" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="Amnesty-International">Amnesty International</keyword> report 2015, ‘Death sentences and executions 2014’, an alarming number of countries used <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/BREAKING-NEWS-YAKUB-MEMON-HANGED/articleshow/48275886.cms">death penalty</a> to tackle real or perceived threats to state security and public safety linked to <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/10-worst-terrorist-attacks-to-rock-India/articleshow/48237865.cms">terrorism</a>, crime or internal instability. As a result, there was a sharp spike in death sentences- at least 2,466 imposed globally, a 28 per cent rise in 2014 compared to 2013. More than the crime, the laws played a major role in these <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/The-worlds-mostinfamous-terrorists-and-the-ends-they-met/articleshow/48172442.cms">executions</a>. 
 
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6 shocking death penalty laws around the world!

The face of <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=terrorist">terrorism</a> has undergone a sea change over the last decade. The world has seen the emergence of new methods of imposing terror and more innovative methods of implementing the same. This has given rise to the uber tech-savvy terrorist who is hard to trace and harder to neutralize. 
 
As one of the chief associates of the Black Friday bombings in Mumbai, while <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=yakub+memon">Yakub Memon</a> is sentenced to death, Business Insider compiles a list of some of the most infamous terrorists the world has ever seen and the fate they met. 
 
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The world’s most
infamous terrorists and the ends they met

<keyword id="383370" type="PERSON" weightage="80" keywordseo="Yakub-Memon">Yakub Memon</keyword>, a convict in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case has been sentenced to death for his involvement and is reportedly set to be hanged on 30 July. Memon now has his last hopes pinned on the curative petition pending in the Supreme Court. 
 
Business Insider compiles a list of the top 5 terrorists the Indian government would love to see behind bars: 
 
<keyword id="119079" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Hafiz-Mohammed-Saeed">Hafiz Mohammed Saeed</keyword> 
 This LeT chief is the mastermind behind the <keyword id="630132" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="80" keywordseo="26/11-Mumbai">26/11 Mumbai</keyword> terror attacks. 
 
The founder of LeT is currently in Pakistan after being released from house arrest. The Pak government had arrested him on many occasions but no criminal charges were leveled against him. 
 Saeed’s Jamaat-ud-Dawa is believed to be a cover for LeT operations. The rise of LeT in Kashmir is credited to Saeed's alleged links with the <keyword id="6357143" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="80" keywordseo="ISI">ISI</keyword> and the Pakistani military. 
 
Zaki-ur-Rehman-Lakhvi 
 
Lakvhi is reportedly second in the LeT ranks, and is in-charge of its recruitments and operations. 
 
He is credited to be the one who recruited and trained the terrorists in the 26/11 attacks. India has claimed he also supervised the recruitment of Azam Cheema who was accused in the2006 Mumbai rail network bombing case. 
 
<keyword id="179979" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Dawood-Ibrahim-Kaskar">Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar</keyword> 
 
The head of the infamous D-company had to feature in the list. Son of a Maharashtra constable, Dawood is accused of the most destructive bomb explosions in Indian history – the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts. He is also believed to be involved in the 26/11 Mumbai terror strikes. 
 Predicted to be hiding in Karachi, Pakistan, Dawood was allegedly attached to Al Qaeda chief <keyword id="41240" type="PERSON" weightage="80" keywordseo="Osama-bin-Laden">Osama Bin Laden</keyword> and also involved in the <keyword id="6354312" type="CITY" weightage="60" keywordseo="IPL">IPL</keyword> spot fixing scandal. 
 
Syed Salahuddin 
 
The chief of Hizbul Mujahideen wants Kashmir to unite with Pakistan. He allegedly has links with ISI and the Pakistani army. He is responsible for terror strikes in Jammu and Kashmir. 
 
Maulana Masood Azhar 
 
This Pakistani Mujaheddin leader has waged a war on India in the Kashmir valley. 
 
However, Maulana came into the limelight after he was released from captivity as India was forced to trade-off the lives of passengers in a hijacked Indian Airlines flight. The hijack saw a dead passenger, a few others injured and three militants being released from Indian captivity. 
 
Since then Maulana has led many anti-India operations, including the attack on the Indian parliament in 2001. 
 
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Top 5 most wanted terrorists in India that still roam free

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday stayed the execution of <keyword id="383370" type="PERSON" weightage="80" keywordseo="Yakub-Memon">Yakub Memon</keyword>, the lone death row convict in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case. 
 
Memon’s death sentence was earlier upheld by the apex court. 
 Recently, <keyword id="2540" type="POSITION" weightage="40" keywordseo="President">President</keyword> <keyword id="6359124" type="PERSON" weightage="40" keywordseo="Pranab-Mukherjee">Pranab Mukherjee</keyword> had rejected his mercy petition. 
 
Memon had challenged the President’s decision to reject his mercy petition. 
 
He had said that the apex court had commuted the death sentence of similarly placed convicts to life term in other cases. 
 Memon is the younger brother of <keyword id="193423" type="PERSON" weightage="40" keywordseo="Mushtaq">Mushtaq</keyword> alias Tiger Memon, the alleged <keyword id="6428311" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="40" keywordseo="mastermind">mastermind</keyword> and main absconding accused. 
 
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1993 Mumbai Seerial Blasts Case: SC Stays Execution Of Convict Yakub Memon

When everyone had apprehended that he had vanished, that didn’t really happen. Mushtaq 'Tiger' Memon has returned to haunt Mumbai Police’s conscience yet again, not personally but through a phone call. Twenty two years since perpetrating one of India’s deadliest terrorist attacks, leading to the death of close to 300 people after a series of bomb blasts rocked India’s finacial capital, Mumbai, Tiger ranks as one of the most wanted criminals in Mumbai Police’s diary. 
 
Though there has been no direct connection with the police, phone calls tapped at Memon’s family residence in Mumbai informs that Tiger may be planning on taking revenge for his brother, Yakub’s hanging on 30th July. 
 
According to a leaked copy of the transcript of the purported conversation, between Tiger and his mother, on the morning Yakub was hanged at a jail in Nagpur, the conversation holds a sinister tone enougg to make the Mumbai Police go scurrying. 
 
 
 
Tiger made the call to his mother at 5:30 am in the morning, barely an hour before Yakub was to be hanged. His mother wasn’t in the state of conversing with his son when her other son was awaiting to face the gallows. The conversation shows that Tiger who has never repented for the blast in Mumbai that killed hundreds is not grieving for his brother’s impending fate, rather talks of revenge, to which his mother didn’t approve of. 
 
The officials from security agencies in Mumbai and Delhi have confirmed the call from Tiger. Tiger Memon and underworld don Dawood Ibrahim were the key conspirators behind the Mumbai blasts. The coordinated attacks across 13 locations in the city on March 12, 1993, claimed 257 lives. 
 
Here is the complete transcript of the conversation between Tiger Memon and his mothe: 
 
Landline phone at Memon’s Mumbai residence rings. 
 
An unidentified man (UM) from the Memon residence picks up the phone. The caller doesn't identify himself but quickly says, " Salam walikum, Hello" 
 
The unidentified male (UM) then replies: Walikum salam Bhai. 
 
Tiger: Ammi Jaggi hai kya. (Is mother awake) 
 
UM: Woh raat bhar soyi nahi hai. (She hasn't slept since last night) 
 
Tiger: Baat karao ( I want to speak to her) 
 
There is a pause of around 30 seconds as the cordless phone is being taken inside to the room where the mother is. While going to the room UM meets someone else who asks who is on the line, UM carrying the phone says, 'Bhaijaan ka phone hai,'. 
 
The Unidentified Male enters a room and tells his mother: "Bhaijaan baat karenge," He repeats it again: "Bhaijaan baat karenge." 
 
There is some murmuring which is not audible. Hanifa apparently doesn't want to talk to Tiger. So the UM insists, "Tum baat to karo." 
 
Hanifa Memon, the mother of Tiger Memon then takes the phone, there are a few moments of silence. In a feeble voice she says something to Tiger that is inaudible. 
 
Tiger: "Salam walikum Ammi khairiyat." 
 
In a feeble voice she says something the voice is inaudible. 
 
Tiger says: "Salam walikum ammi khairiyat?" 
 
Hearing this- the mother Hanifa starts crying. There is a pause for 35 seconds as she sobs. 
 
Tiger then says: "Zulm ki inteha ho gayi hai. Zaya nahi jayega," (This is the height of injustice, this will not go waste.) And repeats it one more time: "Yeh sab zaya nahi jayega," 
 
Yakub's mother starts sobbing more on the phone now. 
 
So Tiger promises: "Tum ro mat ammi iska inko izafa dena hoga." 
 
Hanfia says something which is inaudible- 
 
Tiger: "main unko chukwaonga" (I will make them pay) 
 
Tiger's mother says in a feeble voice: "Bas ho gaya, Pehle ke vajah se mera Yakub gaya ab aur nahin main dekh sakti. 
 
main nahi dekh sakti 
 
main nahi dekh sakti" 
 
And begins to cry again. 
 
The UM who answered the phone initially then takes the phone again from the mother and says: "Bhai..." 
 
Tiger says: "usko sambhalo, sabko sambhalo" 
 
UM replies: "Woh abhi baat nahi karengi woh ro rahi hai. sab ro rahe hain." 
 
Tiger: "Sabke asoo zaya nahi jayenge" (Everyone's tears will not go waste) 
 
"Sabka khayal rakho" (Take care of everyone) 
 
UM: "Dua pado bhai" (Recite some prayers) 
 
The phone gets disconnected then. The call made from a VOIP connection was bouncing from one Internet Protocol address to another, so the trace was not completed.

Tiger Memon, India’s second most wanted terrorist said this to his mother, the morning his brother Yakub was hanged!

As<a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Yakub+Memon+"> Yakub Memon</a> was hanged this morning after a long-stretched process involving country’s top court and politicians, mixed reactions have started pouring in from all corners of the world. From victims’ kin to the politicians, media houses to commoners, everyone has reacted strongly. But it is the reactions of senior politicians that has shocked the world! 
 
As reported by Times of India, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=BJP">BJP </a>today hit out at <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Congress">Congress </a>leaders including <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=shashi+tharoor">Shashi Tharoor</a> and <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=digvijay+singh">Digvijay Singh</a> comments, and said their comments were “insult” to the people wanting to get rid of terrorism. 
 
Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad today attacked on Singh citing his comments "seek to question the judicial process". Prasad said that such comments are regrettable and unfortunate. 
 
As per Prasad, he first chose to stay calm and avoid Tharoor’s tweets against Memon’s hanging, but he was more troubled after Singh’s comments as he holds an important position (Adviser to Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi). Tharoor, in his tweets dubbed the hanging as "state-sponsored killing”. 
 
Another BJP leader and member of Parliament, Rajiv Pratap Rudy said that he too was “shocked” with Tharoor’s comments. 
 
"Can terrorism remain sans politics? Can the process of justice be discarded by a tweet of a senior member of Parliament," he wondered, adding that the judicial process had been completed in Memon's case before he was hanged today. 
 
Prasad also noted Supreme Court’s exceptional hearing at 3 AM, in which it rejected Memon’s lawyers' last-minute attempt to stay his hanging. 
 
Taking a dig at Tharoor, Rudy said, "If such was his feelings, he should have intervened at right time but not debate an issue when it has been settled." 
 
BJP secretary Shrikant Sharma took on the Congress over its two leaders' comments, saying the opposition party had always spoken in different voice on terrorism. 
 
"Whether it is Mani Shankar Aiyar or Digvijay Singh and we have comments from Tharoor today, they (Congress) have always seen to be speaking for terrorists. It is clear from their statements today that they are insulting the peace-loving people who want to get rid of terrorism," Sharma said. 
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Tharoor, Digvijay’s comments on Memon’s hanging an ‘insult’ to people, says BJP

Every year has its own share of controversies and interesting twists and turns play a crucial role in the events. The year 2015 was no exception either. This year too, the country had its incidents, incidences and things that cropped up as aftermath, making some of them hot cakes in terms of news this year. 
 
As we close in on wrapping up the year, here’s what made the headlines in 2015 and shaped the country’s opinion both, socially and politically, sometimes ushering in major change in perception about the country in the world’s eyes. 
 
<keyword id="3119826" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Award-Wapsi">Award Wapsi</keyword> This must have been the most significant event of the year and happened right before the <keyword id="175111" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Bihar-elections">Bihar elections</keyword>. Award wapsi, a movement of sorts, was started a little while after murder of rationalist thinker and writer M M Kalburgi in Karnataka. Writers Nayantara Sehgal and Uday Prakash were among those who set the tone. This year, the biggest literary event was not a book release or something, but more like a writer standing up for his right to speak what he sees as truth. The writers were chided for siding with Congress party since most of them received awards during the tenure of Congress government. 
 
National Herald case 
Apart from Award Wapsi, this was another headline grabber which almost made demi gods out of Congress first line leaders. AICC Chairperson Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul Gandhi made an appearance in court over murky National Herald assets usurping case, which cost the country quite dearly since Congress stalled the discussions over some crucial issues such as GST in parliament, over ‘vendetta’ politics. 
 
Modi Pakistan-Afghan visit 
Towards the end of the year, the Prime Minister who has been jocularly targeted for his trips aboard sprang up a surprise and visited his counterpart in Pakistan absolutely out of turn, thus catching everyone by surprise. His move was both appreciated and criticized in equal measures by those who love him, and by those who simply didn’t like this approach. But, it looks like the White House seems to have welcomed this new found bonhomie between neighbours who have been sworn enemies over several issues. 
 
Shah Rukh, Aamir Khan’s (controversial) intolerance remarks 
This year when people spoke of social and cultural differences, they were targeted on social media and how! Shah Rukh Khan and Aamir Khan who spoke against the rising incidents of ‘intolerance’ and the subsequent fear that has been the result of this, they were targeted badly for everything they said and did. Many from Bollywood including Raveena Tandon, Madhur Bhandarkar and Anupam Kher condemned these remarks made by the two Khans. The issue still simmers on. 
 
No women in temples, so what! 
It started with Ayyappan temple in Sabarimala, Kerala where a trustee said they would put scanners soon to keep menstruating women from visiting temples and angering the gods. Soon after, BJP leader Pankaja Munde in Mumbai seemed to have agreed with this line of thought. She asked, in all calm tone, yes women have not been allowed to visit temples in particular days. So what?! This irked feminists and people across the social media, who ensured their spoke their minds against this medieval stance against menstruating women. 
 
Meat ban during Paryushan Parva 
The BJP government in Maharashtra banned meat during the Jain fasting period called Paryushan Parva. This angered people from across social strata, who were sure that the BJP was driving a wedge between communities that ate meat and those that didn’t consume meat. This was called a social experiment of the worst kind, which would have repercussions on people’s food habits where forced opinions would mean democracy had ceased to exist even in people food habits. 
 
Sadhvi Prachi 
In keeping with the continued tradition of letting lose a volley of abuses and irrational statements, asking people to go to Pakistan if they were opposed to the ideologies of BJP government which predominantly upheld Hindu values and the way of life, that an alternate faith was next to impossible. Sadhvi Prachi being just a representative of all those medieval thoughts and barbaric mindset, kept the newspapers busy with her idiosyncrasies while BJP leadership failed to rein her in. 
 
Yakub Memon 
Hanging of 1997 Mumbai blast main accused Yakub Memon, who was held guilty by courts in 2007 the country witnessed some tense moments and swift working by the courts even on the previous night he was to be hanged on July 30. 
 
Though his death didn’t create a law and order situation, international media lost no opportunity to ensure this incident was bracketed under ‘intolerance’ towards Muslim brethren. 
 
Bihar elections 
This was the single most significant incident that probably indicated the image of BJP was on a journey downhill. Having doled out goodies in form of packages, and most engaging and intense campaigning by the who’s who of BJP including Amit Shah and PM Narendra Modi, the MahagatBandhan with Nitish Kumar and Lalu at the helm held people’s hopes. That is where exactly their votes went too. But in the run up to event, there was a lot of bad blood that spilled forth. 
 
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