Mumbai: Yakub Memon, the lone 1993 Mumbai serial blasts convict was hanged to death at the Nagpur jail on Thursday morning. His body is now in Mumbai with his family in Mahim for his last rites.
The burial in all likelihood will take place at Marine Lines where his father is buried.
Security has been significantly stepped up across Mumbai to avoid any untoward incident in the city. As per sources, the National Security Agency (NSA) has is also monitoring the security situation in the city. Rapid Action Force (RAF) and Quick Reaction Team (QRT) units have been deployed at the spot.
The authorities have laid the conditions that the burial should be low key and must be completed in a stipulated time. The execution took place at 6:43 AM on Thursday morning after his last minute plea in the Supreme Court was rejected.
Memon was the first and the only convict out of 100 in the 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts case whose hanging was upheld by the Supreme Court. The death sentence of 11 others was commuted to life.
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