Don’t send Yakub Memon to the gallows - SDPI

SDPI NEWS NETWORK:

New Delhi, 27 July 2014:-

The Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) held a massive protest demonstration at the Maharashtra Sadan, Copernicus Marg New Delhi. ‘Yakub Memon ki Phansi Roko’, ‘Zaat Paat ki Raajneeti Bandh Karo’, ‘Sab MujrimOn ko Ek Saza’, were a few of the slogans raised by the party activists. Addressing the media persons Party Vice President said After revelation from the RAW officer B. Raman, the situation in the matter of hanging of Yaqub Memon has taken a new turn where the entire India, particularly the law abiding intelligentia and activists have taken upon themselves to put the case that Yaqub Memon may not be hanged as 140 persons including retired honorable judges of Supreme Court, Members of Parliament and numerous activists and eminent personalities in view of the exposure of the facts relating to the mitigating circumstances and non performance of the prosecution as well as defense in the trial of the accused. He further said SDPI would not like the repetition of the hanging of Khudi Ram Bose and so take up as a responsibility to stand up for justice in the democratic setup of the country.

Delhi State President Advocate Aslam said it is unfortunate that the Supreme Court has refused to reconsider his execution and rejected his curative petition, while Yaqub Memon is to be hanged for being a relative of Tiger Memon on the other hand Bal Thackeray who sponsored the 1992 Mumbai riots following the demolition of Babri Masjid was given a state funeral. About 900 persons died in the barbaric riots in December 1992 and 10 days in January 1993.

Aslam slammed the Maharashtra State Government and said double standard is being practiced in the case of 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts convict Yaqub Memon who is to be hanged on July 30, 2015. He said the Maharashtra government is trying to wreck vengeance on the members of the Memon family, who chose to surrender because of faith in our government and judiciary. Yaqub was singled out for the death sentence while the main perpetrators are at large. There is ample evidence that the main culprits have escaped the law with the help of agencies across the border.

A memorandum submitted with the Governor of Maharashtra and the President of India, demanded that the Justice B. N. Srikrishna's report be implemented in which the Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray was named for directing the brutal violence and several police officials were indicted in the report terming the government agency as communal.

The protest demonstration was lead by the party national vice president Adv Sharfuddin Ahmed and was participated by national secretary M Rafiq Jabbar Mulla, Delhi state prez Adv Aslam and cadres and members of the party.

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