Supreme Court · 2015 INSC 537 · Decided 30 July 2015
Yakub Abdul Razak Memon v. State of Maharashtra and ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2015 INSC 537 · [2015] 12 S.C.R. 689
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CRIMINAL) No. 135/2015
- Decided
- 30 July 2015
- Bench
- DIPAK MISRA, PRAFULLA C. PANT, AMITAVA ROY (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 72
Headnote
A B ,., Mercy petition: 1993 Bombay bomb blasts - Petitioner c convicted and awarded death sentence - Mercy petition rejected - Death warrant issued - Writ petition - Legal justifiability of warrant for execution of petitioner on 30. 7. 2013 assailed and direction sought for stay of execution petition on the ground of not granting of 14 days' time D from the date of receipt of communication of rejection of the mercy petition - Held: Almost 22 years have passed since 1993 when the incident occurred - There was no error in the issue of the death warrant - When the first mercy petition
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