Tiger Memon called up family shortly before Yakub hanging: Reports

• New Delhi
• Updated: Aug 07, 2015

Tiger Memon, Yakub's brother along with underworld don Dawood Ibrahim and his brother Anees Ibrahim, are considered to be the key conspirators behind the 1993 blasts. Tiger Memon has been absconding since the blasts that killed 257 people while Indian authorities believe he is in Pakistan.

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Shortly before 1993 Mumbai blasts accused Yakub Memon was hanged, his brother and prime accused in the case, Tiger Memon rang up the family, reports said Friday.
The news reported quoting sources that Tiger Memon called on the family landline in the early hours of July 30 just one-and-half hour before the execution.
The number was being monitored by a wing of the Mumbai Police and the officials listening in identified Tiger's voice.
The call was confirmed by security officials in Mumbai and Delhi but senior Mumbai police officials, Yakub Memon's lawyer and members of the Memon family refused to comment.
The report said that instead of grieving for his brother, Tiger talked about revenge in the conversation with his mother and another family member.
Mushtaq Tiger Memon, one of the prime accused in the 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts case, is a member of terrorist Dawood Ibrahim's gang. He is wanted by the Interpol and CBI.
Tiger's role in the blasts had been confirmed by the special court after the conviction of the others accused in the case.
His younger brother Yakub Memon was hanged in the Nagpur Central Jail on July 30 for providing llogistical support to the bombers.