New Delhi: In a reiteration of its earlier order passed on Wednesday, the Supreme Court early on Thursday morning rejected a last ditch attempt by 1993 Mumbai blast convict Yakub Memon to stall his execution by 14 days.

Memon had challenged the rejection of his mercy petition by the president.

The apex court bench comprising Justice Dipak Misra, Justice Prafulla C. Pant and Justice Amitava Roy heard the last ditch attempt by Memon to get some reprieve from his near-imminent execution.

Perhaps for the first time, in the early hours of Thursday, the Supreme Court heard a petition seeking a stay on the execution of death sentence at the court premises at such late hours of the night.

In the early hours of Thursday, a senior registrar of Supreme Court reached the residence of Chief Justice of India H.L. Dattu in connection with exercising related to the hearing of the petition.