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Yakub Memon files last-ditch petition in SC, President rejects mercy plea
Updated On: 29 July, 2015 11:42 PM IST | | PTI
<p>In yet another last ditch action, lawyers for Yakub Memon, facing execution on Thursday, moved the Supreme Court late on Wednesday seeking stay of his hanging after President Pranab Mukherjee rejected his mercy petition</p>
New Delhi: In yet another last ditch action, lawyers for Yakub Memon, facing execution on Thursday, moved the Supreme Court late on Wednesday seeking stay of his hanging.
The petition pleaded that an order should be passed that the authorities should give him at least 14 days time for execution after the rejection of his mercy petition as per the apex court's guidelines.
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