After tweeting that Yakub Memon should not be hanged for what Salman Khan says his brother Tiger Memon has done, the actor has retracted his comment and apologised.

Even as protesters converged outside his home and a political storm started brewing, Salman used the social media site to retract his statement and then say that he had not implied that Yakub Memon is innocent. He went on to talk about his faith in the Indian judiciary and said many lives were lost in the Mumbai blasts. In a familiar twist to this tale, his father Salim Khan intervened to say that Salman’s tweets were ridiculous and his son was ignorant about the issue. Salman also tweeted that he was retracting his comment as his father had told him to do so.