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Yakub Abdul Razzaq Memon (30 July 1962 – 30 July 2015) was an Indian terrorist financier convicted of terrorism over his financial involvements in the 1993 Bombay bombings, and the brother of one of the prime suspects in the bombings, Tiger Memon.
Jul 30, 2015 · The Yakub Memon story: The man who helped India expose Pakistan's role in 1993 Bombay blasts. The CBI claimed he was arrested on August 5, 1994. Memon denied the claim and said he had been...
Aug 6, 2015 · Yakub Memon's defence attorney Anand Grover on why he believes the execution of the 1993 Mumbai blasts convict was not legal.
Jul 30, 2015 · NEW DELHI — Yakub Memon, the “driving spirit” behind a series of bombings in Mumbai that killed 257 people in 1993, was hanged early Thursday morning at a prison in central India.
The Memons. Yakub Memon was held in prison beginning in 1994. He was convicted of conspiracy: arranging and financing training and purchasing vehicles used for the bombings. He was sentenced to death in July 2007 and was executed by hanging on 30 July 2015 at 6:35 a.m. IST at Nagpur Jail.
Jul 31, 2015 · Until 5 am Thursday, two hours before he went to the gallows on his 53rd birthday, Yakub Memon was hopeful. The staff at the Nagpur Central Jail say the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts convict was counting on clemency.
Jul 21, 2015 · A little over 22 years after 13 coordinated blasts rocked Mumbai, killing 257 people and injuring over 700, the lone convict on death row in the case –Yakub Abdul Razak Memon–will be hanged after the Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected his curative petition against death sentence.
Less than 90 minutes after the Supreme Court turned down his final appeal, authorities at Nagpur central jail hanged 1993 Mumbai blasts convict Yakub Memon.
Jul 21, 2015 · 1993 Mumbai serial blasts convict Yakub Memon. In a letter written to the Chief Justice of India in July 1999, Yakub Memon described himself as a “good citizen of this country” who “tried to help the government in whatever small manner that [he] could”.
Jul 30, 2015 · India has carried out the execution of Yakub Memon, the man convicted of financing the deadly 1993 Mumbai bombings. Memon was hanged at a prison in Nagpur in the western state of Maharashtra.
