NAGPUR: "My hanging has been politicised. I know that I am going to die. Only miracle can save me," 1993 Mumbai blast convict Yakub Memon told a home guard who was posted near his barrack on Wednesday morning.

The home guard constable told mid-day that Yakub, who was usually a very calm prisoner was looking very disturbed on Wednesday. "He used to never interact with us, but, he asked me several times what had happened in the Supreme Court, which was going to decide his fate," the constable who didn't want to be named told this correspondent.