New Delhi: The government on Wednesday is likely to advise President Pranab Mukherjee to reject mercy petition of Yakub Memon, who is facing gallows in the 1993 Mumbai blasts case, said sources.
Home Minister Rajnath Singh will also meet the President at Rashtrapati Bhawan.
The Home Ministry is against Memon's mercy petition and said he should be hanged at the earliest, said sources. The ministry has sent back the file to Rashtrapati Bhawan, the sources added.
Hectic consultations were on late in the Wednesday evening on the issue with Law Secretary PK Malhotra holding discussions with Home Secretary LC Goyal apparently on the issue.
Government sources said the Home Secretary may formally communicate this view to the President who had referred the fresh petition filed by Memon on Wednesday.
The President, who acts on the aid and advice of the Council of Ministers, had referred the petition to the Home Ministry earlier in the day.
Rashtrapati Bhavan is expected to make public its decision, one way or the other, on the issue tonight as time is running out for Memon.
He is scheduled to be hanged on Thursday morning in the Nagpur jail after the Supreme Court dismissed his petition against the death warrant on the ground that it was issued before his curative plea was heard by the court.
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