Did Yakub Memon Have to Hang in Ram Rajya?
Benefit of Doubt Deprived I view Yakub Memon’s case from a different lens. It is now utterly clear that an implicit promise was made to Yakub Memon – one that is made to almost every accused person who becomes an approver – that he would get a relatively lenient sentence; that is, if he merited the harshest punishment, it would be mitigated to a notch or two lower than that. For a minute, read between the lines of this extract from an unpublished article written by the late B Raman, then the Head of the Pakistan Desk at RAW : “In July 1994, some weeks before my retirement, he was informally picked up in Kathmandu, with the help of the Nepal police, driven across Nepal to a town in Indian territory, flown to Delhi by an aircraft of the Aviation Research Centre and formally arrested in Old Delhi by the investigating authorities and taken into custody for interrogation. Especially since another key officer, Shantanu Sen, who led the CBI team probing the 1993 Mumbai blasts, confirmed in a TV interview that the agency used its contacts in Pakistan to “induce the Memons to believe that their safety lay in India”.
Yakub’s petition should have been heard by Constitution Bench: Prof. Upendra Baxi
Yakub’s petition should have been heard by Constitution Bench: Prof. Upendra Baxi
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