Judge who rejected Yakub Memon's mercy plea gets threat letter...

• New Delhi
• Updated: Aug 07, 2015

A file photo of 1993 Mumbai blasts convict Yakub Memon.

The judge who led the Supreme Court bench that rejected 1993 Mumbai blasts convict Yakub Memon's last mercy petition against hanging has received a threatening letter.
Justice Dipak Misra received an anonymous letter which says he will be targeted even if his security is increased, TV channels reported.
The Delhi Police have registered a case and are investigating the letter.
Soon after Yakub Memon was hanged in the early hours of July 30, security for justice Misra and his two colleagues-Amitav Roy and Prafulla Pant was increased. The three-member Supreme Court bench had rejected Memon's last-minute appeal to stop his hanging, in an unprecedented hearing that took place in the Supreme Court in the middle of the night.
Yakub -- brother of prime accused Tiger Memon -- and 11 others were sentenced to death by a special TADA court in July 2007 for the dozen explosions that ripped through India's financial capital, killing 257 people and leaving more than 1,000 injured.
The only well-educated member of the Memon family was found guilty of criminal conspiracy, arranging money for buying vehicles used by the bombers and organising air tickets to Dubai for some of them.