Yaqub Memon while talking to Madhu Trehan,an Indian journalist, in his only interview, with Newstrack in August 1994, accepted that he played a very vital role in the Mumbai bomb blast, though he was not the master mind. He named his brother Tiger Memon as the Master mind.
Friends, what is your take on that? Should he be hanged? Or should the court accept his latest plea, through eminent citizens and bollywood actors, for imprisonment for life?
And to how much extent is Tushar Gandhi, great grandson of Mahatama Gandhi, right, when he says that he is against capital punishment and that there should be no capital punishment at all?

I sometimes wonder, if judiciary is supreme, then why does these so called intellects and high profile citizens indulge in futile representations and discussions.
I really pity them.

Justice Markandey Katju, who is the former Chairman, Press Council of India, and prior to his appointment as Chairman, Press Council of India, he served as a Judge at Supreme court of India, says he found weak evidence in this case.

Well, Justice Katju has his own say.
Rest of India has its own.

No person with a humanist approach to life would see an eye to eye with the capital punishment prevalent in the country. But with all this said and done, how can we ignore the barbarism at the very same place.

I would like Tushar Gandhi and the likes of him to answer just one question; ” when you advocate doing away with death penalty, how many times, you think, have you advocated for the justice to be meted out to bereaved families whose kith and kin have fallen victim to terrorist barbarism. What about the deaths imposed by terrorists to the innocent citizens of the country. Who, in your view, is going to give an account for those merciless deaths.

In 2014, at least 2,466 people were sentenced to death worldwide – up 28% on 2013. And in India out of 64 death sentences given, none has been executed. Which shows India has been very slow in pursuing the capital punishment. But, this does in no way neutralize the resolve that the rarest of the rare cases should not be taken cognizance of and punish the accused as per the law of the land which provides for capital punishment as the deterrent.

At the time when Nathuram Godse was to be hanged, in 1949, Gandhi ji’s two sons and pt. Jawahar lal Nehru had opposed the death penalty and pleaded that the hanging would bring dishonour to Gandhi ji’s Martyrdom. But the court still went with the order and the accused were hanged.

So judiciary should be left to do its part, with out any undue hinderences and obstructions.

And for God’s sake, if Supreme court once decides that a particular case comes under rarest of the rare catagory and that the same warrants death penalty, then how come the other agencies or intellects or prominent citizens can even think of commuting it.

I fail to understand why we tend to make irresponsible moves to make the highest judicial authority to look back into something which has been decided once and for all.

Death penalty can  not bring the martyrs back, but it can atleast leave an impact on like minded people, as the terrorists, to desist from the barbaric acts on humanity.

On that hopful note, I feel sad for the family of the person who will not see the sun tomorrow and for ever. And share sympathy with those who lost their dear ones in the barbaric bomb blast in 1993, in Mumbai.

JAI HIND