Yakub Memon Hanged in Nagpur Jail

Yakub Memon was convicted for helping finance the serial blasts in Mumbai in 1993 in which 257 people were killed.

New Delhi:  Yakub Memon, convicted as “a driving spirit” for the 1993 blasts in Mumbai, was hanged this morning at Nagpur Central Prison. At 5 am, the Supreme Court had rejected his last minute petition to stop his hanging after an unprecedented middle-of-the-night hearing.