March 12, 1993: Serial blasts shattered the city at 12 locations including Air-India Building, Bombay Stock Exchange and Centeur and Sea Rock Hotels in which 257 people were killed and another 713 injured.
June 1995: Trial begins in TADA court in Mumbai housed in high-security Central Prison.
August 6, 1994: Yakub arrested when he arrived at Delhi Airport from Khatmandu.
September 2006: 100 accused, including Yakub, were convicted. Twenty were given life sentences. Among them was film star Sanjay Dutt who was given 5 years jail term for possessing weapon in notified area under TADA.
March 21, 2013: Supreme Court upheld death sentence awarded to Yakub by TADA Court but commutes death sentence of 10 others to life term. One convict dies in jail.
2014: President Pranab Mukherjee rejects Yakub's mercy petition.
April 10, 2015: Supreme Court rejects review petition filed by Memon
May 2015: Yakub lodged in Nagpur central prison files a curative petition in Supreme Court.
July 21: Supreme Court dismisses curative petition of Yakub, confirms death sentence.
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