The Supreme Court on Monday stayed the execution of Yakub Abdul Razak Memon, the lone convict in the 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blasts case whose death penalty was upheld by the apex court in March last year.
Memon had moved court for commutation of his capital punishment to life imprisonment after the President rejected his mercy petition two weeks ago.
While entertaining Memon's petition after brief arguments from senior advocate Upamanyu Hazarika, a vacation bench of Justice JS Khehar and Justice C Nagappan ordered it to be listed along with a petition filed by Mohd Arif aka Ashfaq, who was awarded death penalty in the Red Fort attack case of 2000 in which two Army jawans and another person were killed.
Both Memon and Ashfaq have sought commutation of death penalties on similar grounds — they could not be sentenced twice for the same offence. Their contention is that they served 14 years in jail, which is equivalent in general terms to a life sentence, and hence, could not now be executed following the death penalty awarded by the courts.
Memon also challenged rejection of his mercy petition, saying the President did not appropriately consider his incarceration for nearly 20 years during pendency of the case, first before the designated TADA court and then before the apex court...
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