300 Eminent People sign Mercy Petition in support of Yakub Memon

Around 300 distinguished people from every walks of life, have signed the mercy petition in support of Yakub Memon and sent it to the President. They have urged President Pranab Mukherjee to show leniency and commute the death sentence of Memon into life imprisonment.

Here’s the Partial List:

* Sitaram Yechury (CPM)
* Prakash Karat (CPM)
* D Raja (CPI)
* Brinda Karat (CPM)
* Mani Shankar Aiyar (Congress)
* Shatrughan Sinha (BJP???)
* T Siva (DMK)
* Majeed Memon (NCP)
* Dipankar Bhattacharya (CPI-ML)
* Justice HS Bedi (Retd. Supreme Court Judge)
* Justice PB Sawant (Retd. Supreme Court Judge)
* Ram Jethmalani (Eminent Jurist)
* Prashant Bhushan (Eminent Lawyer)
* Naseeruddin Shah (Veteran Actor)
* Mahesh Bhatt (Renowned Filmmaker)
* Anand Patwardhan (Leading Filmmaker)
* Tushar Gandhi (Social Activist)
* KTS Tulsi (Eminent Lawyer and Rajya Sabha MP)
* HK Dua (Senior Journalist, Diplomat and Rajya Sabha MP)
* MK Raina (Theatre Personality)
* Indira Jaising (Eminent Lawyer)
* N.Ram (Senior Journalist)
* Justice H Suresh, Justice KP Siva Subramaniam, Justice SN Bhargava, Justice (retd) K Chandru, and Justice Nagmohan Das (Other Judges)
* Irfan Habib, Arjun Dev, DN Jha (Academicians)
* Aruna Roy, Jean Dreze and John Dayal (Social Activists).