Larger #SupremeCourt bench to hear #YakubMemon petition today

Suspense continued over the execution of death warrant against Yakub Memon, the lone convict in the 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blasts case, after two Supreme Court judges took different stand on his fresh plea for relief on Tuesday and referred the matter to Chief Justice of India (CJI) to constitute a larger bench. The new bench, consisting of Justices Dipak Misra, Prafulla Pant and Amitava Roy, will hear the petition on Wednesday.

Memon is scheduled to be hanged at 7am on July 30, in Nagpur prison, after a TADA court issued a death warrant on April 30.