How Yakub Memon was hanged

                    

Over 22 years after the 1993 Mumbai blasts, Yakub Memon, the sole convict on death row, was hanged on his 53rd birthday today. Here is how Yakub's hanging happened.

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Yakub Memon was woken up at 3.30am on Thursday.

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Yakub was permitted a warm bath and was provided with a set of fresh clothes — hours ahead of his scheduled hanging.

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Arrangements to offer namaz and read the Holy Quran were made for Memon at the Nagpur central jail.

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Yakub was offered a breakfast of his choice. Reports say that Memon had not eaten since Wednesday.

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Yakub underwent a final medical examination prior to hanging.

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Chief judicial magistrate of Nagpur M M Deshpande was present in the Fansi Yard. She read out the operating part of the TADA court order which awarded capital punishment to Yakub before he was made to stand on a stool and the lever pulled by the hangman.

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Memon was hanged at 6.35am

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Memon was hanged till death in the 'Fansi Yard' under supervision of jail superintendent Yogesh Desai.

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A team of doctors declared him dead after about half-and-hour of the scheduled hanging, when his body was brought down.

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A postmortem was conducted a by a team from a Nagpur hospital.

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Yakub's body was then handed over to his family members. Yakub's brother Suleman and cousin Usman, who were camping in Nagpur since Wednesday, received the body.

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7 family members, including two women, accompanied Yakub's body to Mumbai.

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Yakub's body was brought from Nagpur to Mumbai by IndiGo flight 544.

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Kalam had congratulated a cop moments before he collapsed

SHILLONG: Former President A P J Abdul Kalam had congratulated a constable for remaining alert throughout the day, minutes before he collapsed at the Indian Institute of Management and died here on Monday night.

"The former President congratulated an SOT (special operation team) personnel for being alert throughout the road trip from Guwahati to Shillong last evening," East Khasi Hills district SP M Kharkrang said.

He said the personnel at first got scared after Kalam summoned him. But then the VVIP acknowledged the constable for doing his duty properly.

Mourning the loss, Kharkrang said, "What makes him truly great is his acknowledgement of the simple things in life done rightly."

Kalam arrived at 5:40pm at the IIM guesthouse in Shillong and began delivering a lecture on 'Creating a live-able planet' when he collapsed and rushed to the Bethany hospital here.

He was declared dead at 7:45pm by the medical board of the hospital.

Meghalaya government has declared a state holiday on Tuesday as a mark of respect to Kalam who breathed his last in the city.

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EPFO to launch online PF withdrawal facility in 3 months

NEW DELHI: Retirement fund body EPFO is likely to launch the online PF withdrawals facility in next three months for the benefit of its over six crore subscribers.

After the launch of this facility, subscribers will be able to apply online for withdrawal of the provident fund which will be transferred directly to their bank accounts.

The details of the online PF withdrawal facility will be discussed at a meeting of EPFO trustees from workers' side called by the Labour Ministr  on July 24, a senior Labour Ministry official said.

At present, the subscribers who wish to settle their accounts with the Employees' Provident Fund Organization (EPFO) are required to apply manually for withdrawing PF.

The official said that for launching the facility, at least 40 per cent of the Unique (portable PF) Account Numbers (UANs) should be seeded with the Aadhaar number and bank account details of the subscribers.

At present, there are only 12 per cent subscribers whose Aadhaar number has been seeded with UANs activated by them.

In order to push the online facilities for subscribers, EPFO has become the registrar of Unique Identification Authority of India ( UIDAI) for enrolment. It is also an online authentication user agency of the Authority.

This would help EPFO verify the credentials of an applicant by using the Aadhaar database.

EPFO had issued over four crore portable UANs in July last year. EPFO has been seeding various KYC details with UANs like bank account and Aadhaar for improving the delivery of its services.

Tthe issue of capping premature provident fund withdrawals will also come up for discussion during the meeting on Friday, the official said.

It is proposed that the premature PF withdrawals should be capped at 75 per cent for EPFO subscribers at any given time till the age of 58.

Under the existing provisions, the subscribers can withdraw the entire amount by showing 'not employed anywhere' for a period of two months.

For implementing the proposal, the government would have to amend the scheme by scraping the provision of inoperative accounts, the official added.

Under this provision, a subscriber's account becomes inoperative if no contribution is made for 36 months. The EPFO does not credit interest on inoperative accounts.

If EPFO retain 25 per cent of a subscriber's PF till he attains the age of 58, his account has to be credited with due interest because it will become inoperative due to new provision, he added. 

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