The Supreme Court’s secretary general VSR Avadhani has issued a press release that its former deputy registrar (research), Anup Surendranath, had resigned “on his own request as he wanted to pursue his interest in research projects in which he is involved in”.

“What was played out this week at the Supreme Court was the proverbial final nail,” said Surendranath.

As a debate rages over the hanging of Mumbai blasts convict Yakub Memon, the Rajya Sabha on Friday admitted CPI leader D Raja’s private member’s resolution to abolish the death sentence in the country. A private member’s resolution is moved by an individual member and not by the government. “Snatchi...

“Hope died, man died, justice lived,” commented Rishabh Sancheti, one of Yakub Memon’s advocates, about the early-morning, eleventh hour Supreme Court hearing that ultimately failed to save his client from the noose. “Have you (heard) it happen in any other country?”

Dismissing the argument that 1993 Mumbai blasts convict Yakub Memon’s execution should have been stalled by 14 days after the rejection of his mercy plea, Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi on Thursday said had that happened, it would have been against the “spirit of the law”. In an interview to Karan T...

Yakub Memon, convicted in the March 12, 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts, was hanged till death at the Nagpur Central Jail in Maharashtra today morning, officials said. He was sent to the gallows - on his 54th birthday on Thursday - after several of his court appeals and clemency petitions were rejected by v...

A Supreme Court hearing is likely to place on a plea seeking to put on hold the execution of 1993 Mumbai blast convict Yakub Memon 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 p...

SCOI Report, Wednesday 29 July 2015: Yakub Abdul Razak Memon vs State of Maharashtra Through the Secretary, Home Department, and Others

SCOI Reports 28 July 2015: Yakub Abdul Razak Memon vs State of Maharashtra Through the Secretary, Home Department, and Others.

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*SCOI Report, Monday 27 July 2015: Yakub Abdul Razak Memon vs State of Maharashtra Through the Secretary, Home Department, and Others

As 1993 Mumbai serial Mumbai bomb blasts convict Yakub Memon Monday told the Supreme Court that he could not be executed on July 30 as this would be in “flagrant” violation of the court’s earlier directions, the central government strongly opposed it saying that he has already exhausted all the lega...

The 1993 Bombay blast convict Yakub Memon’s plea for stay on his execution, slated for 30 th July 2015, will be heard by the Supreme Court today with NLU Delhi’s death penalty litigation clinic as an intervenor . The hearing comes in the midst of intense public scrutiny as everyone from politicians ...

The Supreme Court will hear on Monday the plea by 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blasts convict Yakub Memon’s plea challenging the death warrant issued against him and for the stay of his execution set for July 30. “I have already assigned the bench. It will come by Monday,” said Chief Justice HL Dattu as ...

The Centre on Wednesday told the Supreme Court that after a mercy petition by a death row convict is rejected by the President, it cannot be moved afresh before the governor of a state unless there were entirely new grounds. Telling this to the Constitution bench comprising Chief Justice HL Dattu, J...

Special TADA Court Judge PD Kode who conducted the trial in the March 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case and Special Public Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam on Tuesday hailed the Supreme Court’s rejection of his curative petition, which will send prime accused Yakub Memon to the gallows in just over a week . Nik...

Death row convicts in India are mostly from the backward classes, religious minorities and economically weaker sections, reported the Times of India . 93.5 per cent of those sentenced to death for terror offences in the last 15 years were Dalits or religious minorities while 75 per cent of the total...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed a curative petition by 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blasts convict Yakub Abdul Razak Memon, who is scheduled to hang on July 30 . Memon had challenged the earlier verdict of the apex court to uphold his death sentence. Rejecting the curative petition, a bench of Chi...

Yakub Memon, convicted for his role in the March 12, 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts, will be hanged on July 30, official sources said here early Wednesday. He is likely to be be hanged in the Nagpur Central Jail, where he is currently lodged, following the rejection of his mercy plea in April this year by ...

The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice to Nithari killings’ convict Surender Koli on an Uttar Pradesh government plea seeking restoration of death sentence in Rimpa Haldar case - one of the 14 cases of rape and killings in the village in Noida bordering Delhi. A bench of Chief Justice HL Dattu, J...

“)Chief Justice of India (CJI) HL Dattu is not far from matching a new record: since he became CJI on 28 September 2014, he has confirmed the death sentences of 10 persons in five cases.