Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi called the rejection of Yakub Abdul Razzak Memon's petition by the Supreme Court early on Thursday monrning just a couple of hours before the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts convict was hanged to death an end of the judicial procress and not a question of victory.
Rohatgi represented the Maharashtra government in the case and had argued in favour of Memon's death sentence. He was the lone convict to be sentenced to death in the 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts case. He was hanged to death in the Nagpur Central Prison.
Memon was hanged at 6:43 AM on Thursday following a day of intense court room action and an unprecedented night long legal proceeding that saw the Supreme Court hearing and then rejecting his final mercy petition early on Thursday morning.
While dismissing his latest petition, Supreme Court judge Justice Dipak Misra, who headed the three-judge bench constituted in the intervening night of Wednesday and Thursday, said, "Stay of death warrant would be a travesty of justice."
The two other judges of the bench were Justices Amitav Roy and Prafulla Pant. It is the same three-judge bench which turned Memon's plea seeking a reconsideration of his death sentence. The bench observed that there was no error in the issue of death warrant sealing the fate of the 53-year-old Memon.
Entire Wednesday and early Thursday morning saw what perhaps Indian judiciary has never done. The petition was heard in Court Room 4 which was opened for an unprecedented 90-minute hearing that started at 3.20 AM and ended a little before dawn.
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