Yakub Memon
Yakub Memon grave 'beautification' row: BJP, Uddhav-led Sena trade barbs
A controversy has erupted over the burial place of 1993 Mumbai blasts convict Yakub Memon in Mumbai, with the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) claiming that the grave was "beautified" and attempts were made to turn it into a shrine of sorts. The BJP claimed that Memon's grave was "beautified" during Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray's tenure as Maharashtra chief minister and sought his apology over it. However, the Sena leaders maintained that the party and the previous Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government had nothing to do with it and that it was being dragged into the issue unnecessarily. As the row erupted over the issue, Mumbai police swung into action on Thursday, removing the LED lights put around the grave of the terror convict, who was hanged at Nagpur jail in 2015 and buried at the Bada Qabrastan in south Mumbai. A DCP-level police officer will probe how the LED lights and marble tiles came to "adorn" the terror convict's grave, an official said. With some Maharashtra
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Threat letter to judge who rejected Memon's mercy plea
Supreme Court judge Justice Dipak Misra, part of a three-member panel that had rejected 1993 Mumbai serial blasts convict Yakub Memon's mercy plea, has received a threat letter, police said on Friday.
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Yakub Memon and the noose
Yakub Memon was hanged in the Nagpur Jail on Thursday, 30th July 2015 at 7 am. His case became the subject of much debate over the last week. Public discourse in India is mostly devoid of nuance and the Yakub Memon case was no different. Strident positions were taken not only in the court of law, but also in the public sphere.
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