By filing a fresh personal mercy plea before the President, Yakub Memon the only convict sentenced to death in the 1993 Mumbai blasts case may have managed to delay his hanging. Hours after an SC bench led by Chief Justice HL Dattu gave its ruling, Memon younger brother of prime accused Tiger Memon handed over to authorities at Nagpur’s Central Prison a personal mercy plea to be forwarded to President Pranab Mukherjee. A similar plea earlier had been rejected by Mukherjee in April 2014, but that was filed on Memon’s behalf by brother Suleiman.
