Yakub Memon’s Hanging: Communalisation and Polarised Public Opinion By Deepak Parvatiyar August 1, 2015 5.00/5 (100.00%) 2 votes Published in elections.in (http://www.elections.in/blog/yakub-memons-hanging-communalisation-polarised-public-opinion/) In the early morning of 30 July – more than 22 years after the serial bomb blasts in Mumbai had claimed 257 innocent lives – one of the key masterminds Yakub Abdul Razak Memon was hanged to death at the Nagpur Central Jail. Two dreaded masterminds of the Bombay bombings (Mumbai was still Bombay then) – Dawood Ibrahim and Yakub’s elder brother ‘Tiger’ Memon – are still absconding. The Indian government and the law enforcing agencies have failed miserably in bringing them to book. All the key perpetrators had fled to Pakistan with the support of Pakistani intelligence agency, ISI. Mystery Over Yakub Memon’s Arrest In fact, Yakub was the only big catch that the Indian intelligence agencies could manage. However, the t
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