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Supreme Court adjourns till tomorrow hearing on Yakub Memon's plea against capital punishment
New Delhi, Jul 27 (IBNS) The Supreme Court on Modnay adjourned till Tuesday the hearing on 1993 serial Mumbai blasts convict Yakumb Memon's plea against his death senctence.
The apex court will continue hearing the case on Tuesday.
Ahead of his hanging on July 30 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 pettion 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.
Memon, an accountant by profession, also filed a mercy petition before the Maharashtra government immediately after his curative petition was dismissed by the apex court last week.
Memon, the first convict sentenced to death row in the one of the worst terror attack cases in the country has said in his pettion 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.
Memon, an accountant by profession, also filed a mercy petition before the Maharashtra government immediately after his curative petition was dismissed by the apex court last week.
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