'1,600 sign petition to hang Yakub Memon in 2 hours'

Family members of victims of 1993 Mumbai blasts submit mass petition to Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fanavis 

Family members of some of the victims of 1993 Mumbai blasts demanded that Yakub Memon be hanged and submitted a mass petition to Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fanavis in this regard.

"Yakub should be hanged," Tushar Deshmukh, who lost his mother in the blasts, said in a memorandum to Fadnavis at Vidhan Bhawan in Mumbai.

"The families have suffered. We demand that the death sentence be carried out," Deshmukh said. He said the memorandum was signed by of 1,600 family members of the victims.

“I have signatures of 1,600 people in just two hours. Many people are saying Yakub should not be hanged, which is against our law,” Deshmukh told ANI.

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court set up a three-judge bench to decide Yakub's fate after a two-judge bench was split on his plea seeking stay of his execution scheduled for July 30.

On March 12, 1993, 12 coordinated blasts had rocked Bombay, as the city was then known, leaving 257 dead and over 700 injured.

Image: Tushar Deshmukh, who lost his mother in the blasts, meets Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis. Photograph: ‏@TheRSS_Piyussh/Twitter

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