Yusuf Mohsin Nulwala, a convict in the 1993 Mumbai blast case, on Friday moved the Supreme Court with his writ petition (WP (CRL) 150/2015) seeking a reduction in his jail term of five to three years. His plea was that he was wrongly sentenced to five years imprisonment for possessing a prohibited automatic AK-56 assault rifle while he was shown in possession of a non-prohibited semi-automatic AK-56.
After in August 2013 banning interns from its premises on Mondays and Fridays - miscellaneous days - in order to fight overcrowding, the Supreme Court now plans to ban interns from entering the “high security” zone inside the court for security reasons.
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”.
SC: Before sunrise“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...
Photo by Andy Dolman*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...
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...