Yakub Memon to be hanged on Thursday

NEW DELHI: Yakub Memon, facing gallows in the 1993 Mumbai blasts case, is all set to be executed tomorrow with the Supreme Court today clearing all legal hurdles by holding that there was "no legal fallacy" and "fault" in the death warrant issued against him. Yet-another last-ditch attempt by the lone convict in the blasts case that killed over 257 people and hundreds injured by filing a mercy plea before the President is also likely to fail with the Home Ministry set to recommend its rejection. In Mumbai, Maharashtra Governor Ch Vidyasagar Rao also rejected his mercy plea that was filed last week. Ending the suspense and uncertainity over the fate of Memon, who was held guilty in the terror case, the apex court said his last legal remedy by way of curative petition was "correctly" dismissed by the three senior-most judges. PTI