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Memon's plea against death sentence referred to larger bench of Supreme Court

by IBNS 28 Jul 2015, 12:50 am

New Delhi, Jul 28 (IBNS) The Supreme Court on Tuesday referred to a larger bench the plea of 1993 Mumbai serial blasts convict Yakub Memon against his execution, scheduled to be carried out on July 30.

Justices A R Dave and Kurian Joseph differed on the issue of entertaining the plea and hence the case was referred to a larger bench for disposal.

Ahead of his hanging Memon filed a petition claiming that relevant  procedure of awarding death sentence was flouted in his case. 

Memon, the first convict sentenced to death row in the one of the worst terror attack cases in the country has said in his petition that a a lower court's death warrant against him was issued before he exhausted all the legal remedies available to him under the law- which is violation of the existing law.

An accountant by profession, Memon also filed a mercy petition before the Maharashtra government immediately after his curative petition was dismissed by the apex court last week.