The night of Yakub Memon's hanging, in Nagpur
Waiting for ‘the’ word, media and cops work through night By Kartik Lokhande Will he be hanged as scheduled? What is the Supreme Court’s decision in unprecedented late-night hearing? Do cops have any inputs? Time of hanging has changed, is it? These and countless many questions filled the otherwise silent night in the radius of around 1 km from Nagpur Central Jail after 12 am on July 30. Tension was palpable. The questions were being asked by mediapersons to fellow journalists, cops to cops, media to cops, and commoners to media and cops. Mediapersons from Nagpur as well as the adjoining states and even Mumbai and Delhi remained awake through the night to telecast the latest inputs with respective media houses, especially electronic media houses. Cops on duty inside Central Jail premises and those on bandobast/nakabandi duty across the city, also were anxious about what was happening. Various routes to and fro Central Jail had barricades, with armed cops deployed ...