NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected the curative petition of Yakub Memon , the lone death row convict in the 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blasts case.

A bench headed by Chief Justice HL Dattu dismissed Yakub's plea saying there is no merit in it. The curative petition was dismissed in chamber without presence of lawyers.

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With this all hurdles in way of Memon's execution have been cleared.

The curative plea was his last legal option to fight for life. Memon is lodged in a solitary cell in the high security Nagpur central jail ​since his conviction in 2006 by a Mumbai TADA court.

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SC had earlier rejected Yakub's review petition after elaborate hearing of the petititioner's counsel for two days.

His mercy plea has already been rejected by the President.

TADA court had awarded him death sentence in 2006.

In 2013, Supreme Court upheld Memon's 2006 conviction by special Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act (Tada) Judge P D Kode in Mumbai. The apex court observed that Yakub, a chartered accountant—and the most articulate and literate among all convicts—played a "key'' role in the blasts.

"A-1 (Yakub Memon) assumed the role of Tiger Memon in India during his absence. As an outcome, Tiger Memon gave the commands to A-1 who, in turn, passed them on to the other accused... Essentially, A-1's deeds can't be viewed as distinct from the act of Tiger Memon. Hence, both owe an equivalent responsibility for the blasts. They were the architects of the blasts, without whom the plan would have never seen the daylight," the Supreme Court bench had said in 2013 while dismissing his appeal against the trial court conviction.

A special Tada judge had earlier fixed July 30 as his execution date after the Supreme Court dismissed his review petition against his mercy plea's rejection earlier that month.

A chartered accountant, Yakub is the younger brother of Tiger Memon, who along with Dawood Ibrahim masterminded the blasts and are absconding.

Yakub has been in custody since 1994.

Yakub's parents, his three brothers and sister-in-law also faced trial in the case.

While his wife, mother and brother Suleiman were acquitted, Yakub and two brothers Essa and Yusuf and sister-in-law Rubeena were convicted and sentenced.

