Final moments: In his last days, Yakub Memon had lost hope, stopped eating, begun to hallucinate

Recountung the final days and hours of Yakub Memon

By Staff Correspondent, 30 July 2015, NewsCrunch.

Yakub Memon, who was hanged early Thursday, had given up hope  stopped eating and begun to hallucinate.

He had hoped for relief in the curative petition filed before the Supreme Court. Bur after it was turned down on July 21, he gave up, seeing the writing on the wall.

As he refused to eat, Nagpur prison doctors put him on an intravenous  saline drip to keep him going, reports The Mumbai Mirror.

Yakub Memon, who'd been transferred to the 'condemned cell' neighboring the hanging yard started hallucinating as the execution date approached.
There was some relief when his wife Raheen and daughter Zubeida visited him last week. His brother met him yesterday evening.

After the three-member judge bench refused to stay his execution on Wednesday, Yakub Memon broke down cursing his fate of being the only person from his family to face punishment for the blasts.

He seems to have accepted his fate finally. IANS reports that he changed into fresh clothes and took a bath on Thursday morning. He also read Quran and prayed before walking to the gallows.

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