Death Penalty Upheld in India for Mastermind of 1993 Mumbai Attacks, Overturned for Other Participants
Believed to be in Pakistan
India's top court upheld the death penalty on Thursday for a mastermind of the country's deadliest series of attacks and ruled a Bollywood star who bought weapons from the bombers must return to jail.
Yakub Memon, brother of the alleged main plotter and fugitive Tiger Memon, was the only one of 11 convicts to see his death sentence upheld by the Supreme Court for his role in the 1993 blasts which killed 257 people in Mumbai.
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Indian Parliament must apologize to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower_caste for DELAYING the implementation of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communal_Award