Security beefed up for 3 judges who ruled Yakub should hang

July 30, 2015 19:14

Hours after Yakub Memon was hanged this morning in a Nagpur jail, security has been added for the three judges who rejected his last-minute appeal in an unprecedented hearing that took place in the Supreme Court.

The three justices spent two hours starting at about 3 am weighing the new petition before they ruled they would not stop his execution at 7 am, reports NDTV.

The judges said that Memon had ample time and opportunity to challenge his death sentence before yesterday, and that he had exhausted all legal options available to a death row prisoner.

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