Yakub petition has over 3,000 pages
Maha says yet to receive the mercy petition
By : DC Correspondent
Update: 2015-07-22 03:49 GMT
New Delhi/Mumbai: A three-judge bench comprising Chief Justice H.L. Dattu and Justices T.S. Thakur and Anil R. Dave rejected the plea for a oral hearing and dismissed the curative plea.The rejection of the curative petition filed by Yakub Memon might be second case in the country’s history when mercy petition is filed twice before the President, sources said.
This was submitted to the Nagpur Central Jail authorities, to be sent to the President through the Maharashtra governor. Raj Bhavan officials, however, they had not received the petition yet. “It will need to be examined by the state law and judiciary department for incorporating its opinion. Examining 3,000 pages will certainly take some time,” a source said.
Yakub Memon, the only convict on death row in the case, handed over his mercy petition to the jail authorities, his lawyer Anil Gedam said. The petition was handed over after Mr Gedam met Memon in the jail.
Mr Gedam, accompanied by Memon’s cousin Usman, had met him on Monday afternoon too. Shubal Farooque, Memon’s Delhi-based lawyer, also met him on Tuesday. Asked about the validity of second mercy petition of Yakub Memon, Anil Gedam Gedam said the first one had been filed by his brother Suleman Memon, while this was the first mercy petition filed by Yakub himself.