New Delhi, July 26 (ANI): Senior BJP leader Shatrughan Sinha and 8 Retired Justice of India are among 40 eminent personalities who have signed a new mercy petition urging President Pranab Mukherjee to stay the execution of 1993 Mumbai serial blasts convict Yakub Memon. “We, the undersigned, through this petition urge Your Excellency to stay the imminent execution so that the substantive and fresh grounds raised herein can be considered on merits,” the petition states. The petition, which has been released by CPM, argues that Yakub Memon is mentally unfit for execution. “Yakub Memon has been suffering from schizophrenia for the last 20 years which makes him unfit for execution. His mental condition has been certified by jail doctors. Your Excellency is required to consider the mental health of a convict before deciding his mercy petition, and can summon his medical records from the prison from the time of his arrest,” the petition reads.
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