Yakub Memon is likely to be hanged on July 30 for his involvement in the Mumbai serial blasts case which killed 257 people. It was an unpardonable act by any reckoning and as per the prevailing law, he deserves the gallows. However, there is a compelling need to expedite cases wherein persons are charged with terrorism or committing ‘rarest of rare’ crimes. To keep such cases hanging for years is equally an injustice to the victims of the accused and their grieving families as also to the accused. Moreover, in such cases the deterrent effect of punishment gets obfuscated. The Supreme Court must draw up a road map for trial of such cases expeditiously, beginning from the sessions court right to the Apex court and the final appeal for presidential clemency – for which there also must be a time limit.
Expedite case judgements
