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India to hang Muslim terrorist July 30 after apex court rejects plea

Xinhua, July 21, 2015 Adjust font size:

India's Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected the curative petition of Yakub Memon, the lone death row convict in the 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blasts case.

The terrorist will be hanged to death on July 30 as a consequence.

Memon is lodged in a solitary cell in the high security Nagpur central jail in the western state of Maharashtra.

A special anti-terrorism court earlier fixed July 30 as his execution date after the Supreme Court dismissed his review petition earlier that month.

In 2013, Supreme Court upheld Memon's 2006 conviction by special Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act (Tada) Judge P D Kode in Mumbai. The apex court observed that Yakub, a chartered accountant and the most articulate and literate among all convicts, played a "key" role in the blasts. Endi