Mumbai bomb plotter on death row loses final appeal

In this file photograph dated March 16, 1993, a double-decker bus passes the crater of a March 12 bomb blast, one of a series of bombs that rocked the western Indian port city of Mumbai. - AFP

NEW DELHI, July 21, 2015 (AFP) - India’s top court on Tuesday rejected a final appeal by Yakub Memon, a key plotter of a series of bomb attacks that killed hundreds in Mumbai two decades ago, paving the way for his execution.

Media reports said Memon would hang on July 30 -- more than two decades after the deadliest attacks ever to hit India -- after the Supreme Court rejected his final plea.