Supreme Court of India

Yakub Abdul Razak Memon v. State of Maharashtra and Anr.

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Reported as [2015] 12 S.C.R. 689
Bench Dipak Misra, Prafulla C. Pant and Amitava Roy JJ.
Decided 30 July 2015

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Mercy petition: 1993 Bombay bomb blasts - Petitioner c convicted and awarded death sentence - Mercy petition rejected - Death warrant issued - Writ petition - Legal justifiability of warrant for execution of petitioner on 30. 7. 2013 assailed and direction sought for stay of execution till disposal of writ petition on the ground of not granting of 14 days' time from the date of receipt of communication of rejection of the mercy petition - Held: Almost 22 years have passed since 1993 when the incident occurred - There was no error in the issue of the death warrant - When the first mercy

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