1993 Blasts Plotter Tiger Memon Threatened to Avenge Brother Yakub"s Hanging: Sources

Mumbai:  Hours before 1993 blasts convict Yakub Memon was hanged, his older brother and terror mastermind Tiger Memon, called his family in Mumbai and threatened to avenge the death, say sources. On record, the Mumbai police have denied it.

Sources have told NDTV that Tiger Memon made the call in the early hours of July 30 through VoIP or Voice on Internet Protocol and spoke to a family member, who reportedly told him that “they cannot take any more violence and it should stop.”

Reports suggest that the call was intercepted by the police and security agencies. Two senior police officers, however, refused to confirm any such call.

Yakub Memon was hanged on July 30 for his role in the terror attack in Mumbai which 257 people were killed. The accountant was held guilty of financing the attack.

Yakub’s body was buried near his home in Mahim, Mumbai.

The main accused in the blasts, Tiger Memon and Dawood Ibrahim, remain missing. Yakub Memon’s lawyers and activists said that he had cooperated wholly with investigators and did not deserve to die. The families of those who were injured or killed in the terror attack strongly disagreed.

Tiger Memon’s call to the Memon household in Mahim allegedly lasted a few minutes.