India executes Mumbai bombings prisoner

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>A man who was convicted of helping to raise funds for the 1993 Mumbai bombings&comma; which killed 257 people&comma; has been hanged&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Yakub Abdul Razak Memon&comma; the only death row convict in India’s deadliest terror attack&comma; was executed on his birthday after the country’s president rejected a last-minute mercy plea&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He was hanged inside a prison in western India where he had been incarcerated since 1994&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>An accountant&comma; Memon was convicted in 2007 of helping raise funds for the serial blasts that rocked the financial capital&period; By late Wednesday Memon finally exhausted all the legal avenues open to him in order to escape the death penalty&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>His older brother Ibrahim&comma; or &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Tiger”&comma; Memon and Dawood Ibrahim&comma; both leading gangsters in Mumbai in the 1990s&comma; are the main suspects in the bombings&comma; seen as revenge for the destruction of a 16th century mosque by Hindu nationalists&period; Both have fled the country&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Prominent citizens&comma; including retired supreme court judges&comma; had urged President Pranab Mukerjee to commute Memon’s sentence to life in prison&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>That appeal reflected both opposition to the death penalty as well as fresh claims by his lawyers that he freely surrendered to Indian authorities in Kathmandu&comma; Nepal&comma; and that his direct links to the bombings had not been sufficiently established&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Indian investigators&comma; along with the main public prosecutor in the case&comma; Ujjwal Nikam&comma; say he was arrested in New Delhi&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The hanging&comma; carried out on Memon’s 53rd birthday&comma; came after a day of dramatic last-ditch efforts by his legal team to commute or at least delay his sentence&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Just two hours before the sentence was carried out India’s Supreme Court had been hearing arguments by his lawyers&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I have exhausted my remedies&comma;” lawyer Anand Grover told reporters in New Delhi at dawn after the Supreme Court heard Memon’s final plea&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I only hope that Yakub Memon will have a dignified death&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;There’s no question of victory&period; I’ve just done my job&comma;” said attorney general Mukul Rohtagi&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The March 12&comma; 1993&comma; bombings ripped through the country’s financial heart&comma; 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