Sources said that after executing the Mumbai serial blasts, Tiger Memon escaped to Pakistan and lived in Karachi’s Gulshan-e-Iqbal area. Later on, he shifted his base to the posh Defence Housing Area in the same city.

Who caught Yakub Memon?

As per the official version, Yakub Memon, who at the time had a Rs 5 lakh award on him, was arrested at 4:30 AM on August 5 by four CBI officials who were “waiting in the shadows after a tip off on the phone”.

When was Yakub Memon hanged?

July 30, 2015
Yakub Memon/Date of death

Are memons rich?

They were socially conservative and religious devout with a large number of hajis among their members. As a community roughly 100,000 Memons ranged across the entire socio-economic spectrum from very poor to very rich.

Why did Yakub Memon returned to India?

A third theory was that Dawood Ibrahim had persuaded Yakub to return to India to delink his name from the conspiracy. The CBI had announced a Rs 15 lakh reward for information about him. In an interview to India Today (31 July 1994) Dawood had said: ‘I am in a desperate situation.

Why Yakub Memon was killed?

On 21 March 2013, the Supreme Court confirmed Memon’s conviction and death sentence for conspiracy through financing the attacks.

Did Salman Khan support Yakub Memon?

Mumbai: Bollywood actor Salman Khan on Sunday tweeted out in support of 1993 Mumbai serial blasts convict Yakub Memon saying his brother Tiger should be hanged instead. The Supreme Court dismissed Yakub Memon’s curative petition against death sentence earlier.

Where is Tiger Memon from?

Mumbai, India
Tiger Memon/Place of birth

What is Tiger Memon’s connection with the Yakub Ibrahim blasts?

It was in this building that the bomb blasts conspiracy was hatched by Mushtaq alias Tiger Memon, Yakub’s brother and the right-hand man of fugitive accused and mastermind Dawood Ibrahim.

Where are the Memons of Mumbai?

T he Memon family residing in Mumbai’s central Mahim has become synonymous with the deadly serials blasts that ripped across Mumbai on 12, March 1993 killing 257 people.

Who are Abdul Razak and Hanifa Memon?

Yakub’s parents Abdul Razak Memon and Hanifa Memon lived in the eight-storey Al-Husseini building near the historic durgah of Makhdoom Shah Baba in Mahim, Central Mumbai.

Who is Suleiman Memon’s wife Rubina Memon?

Rubina Memon: Wife of Suleiman Memon, Rubina was however, convicted by the TADA court and sentenced to life imprisonment as a Maruti van used in the bomb blasts was registered in her name. This van was found abandoned at Worli and Ak-56 rifles and hand grenades found in it.