Dawood Execution Would Have Led Us to Closure: ’93 Victims’ Kin

The 1993 Mumbai blast victims’ kin have said that Dawood Ibrahim’s execution would have made them happier.

Yakub Memon being taken away by the police in 1993 (Photo: AP)

The family of a 1993 Mumbai blasts victim hailed Yakub Memon’s hanging, saying it was the victory of law and hoped that key accused Dawood Ibrahim would meet the same fate.

The city resident Ashok Chaturvedi (25) was killed in Mumbai following a series of blasts on March 12, 1993. The deceased Chaturvedi’s family has praised the Supreme Court for ultimately providing justice to his family by awarding death sentence to one of the accused of the serial blasts.

It virtually is the victory of law of our country, but Dawood should also be nabbed. My family would be more satisfied if other accused specially Dawood would also be given the same treatment.
— Deepak, Ashok Chaturvedi’s brother

Over 22 years after the 1993 Mumbai blasts, Yakub Memon, the sole convict on death row, was hanged on his 53rd birthday on Thursday morning.