The Supreme Court has dismissed the curative petition of death row convict Yakub Abdul Razak Memon in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case.
Memon, a key conspirator with Dawood Ibrahim in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case, is one of ten convicts who was given the death penalty by a special TADA court.
His death sentence was upheld by a Supreme Court bench on March 21, 2013.
If the execution is carried out, it will be the first in connection with the violence that rocked Mumbai resulting in the death of over 250 people in 1993.
A source from within the Death Penalty Research Project at the National Law University in New Delhi, says Memon still has the following options:
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