Salman Khan opposes Yakub Memon's death penalty, says `hang brother Tiger`

Bollywood actor Salman Khan is well known in the industry for not mincing words, and has come out strongly against the death penalty of 1993 Mumbai serial blasts convict Yakub Memon.

New Delhi: Bollywood actor Salman Khan is well known in the industry for not mincing with words, and has come out strongly against the death penalty of 1993 Mumbai serial blasts convict Yakub Memon.

Sallu bhai (as he is fondly called), has lambasted Yakub's absconding elder brother Tiger Memon, who is one of the important suspects in the serial blasts on Twitter. The actor feels that it should be Tiger who should be hanged, and not his younger brother Yakub.

In a series of tweets, the enraged actor has called Yakub's death penalty as unjust and that killing him would be killing humanity.

Hang tiger .

— Salman Khan (@BeingSalmanKhan) July 25, 2015

Brother is being hanged for tiger. Aarrre Whr is tiger? — Salman Khan (@BeingSalmanKhan) July 25, 2015

Tiger ki hi to kami hai India mein. Tiger ko Lao. Hum toh upne family par mar jaaaeen. Tiger tumhaara bhai kuch Dino mein tumhare liyeh — Salman Khan (@BeingSalmanKhan) July 25, 2015

Phasisi k phande pe chardne walla hai . Koi statement. Koi address. Kuch toh bolo k tum teh. Wah bhai ho toh aisa. Matlab. Ya khoob menan. — Salman Khan (@BeingSalmanKhan) July 25, 2015

Kaun sa tiger kaisa tiger kidhar hai tiger. Samaj raha hai tiger. Kay soch k nam diya tha aur kya maina nikal liya uus ka. — Salman Khan (@BeingSalmanKhan) July 25, 2015

Get tiger hang him. Parade him not his brother — Salman Khan (@BeingSalmanKhan) July 25, 2015

Kidhar chupa hai tiger? Hey koi tiger nahi hai hai hai billi aur hum ek billi ko nahi pakad sakteh. — Salman Khan (@BeingSalmanKhan) July 25, 2015

been wanting to tweet Tis fr 3 days n was afraid to do so but it involves a man's n family. Don't hang brother hang tha lomdi who ran away — Salman Khan (@BeingSalmanKhan) July 25, 2015

In another tweet, Salman has also made an appeal to Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif to send Tiger to India if he is in their country.

Sharif Saab ek darkhaust hai k agar yeh aap k mulkh mein hai toh plz iktila kar deejiyeh. — Salman Khan (@BeingSalmanKhan) July 25, 2015

N no 1 ever Address him as tiger ever . Does not deserve that at all. Hang that.............. fill in th blanks — Salman Khan (@BeingSalmanKhan) July 25, 2015

Memon and 11 others were sentenced to death by the Special TADA Court in July 2007 in the 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts which left 257 dead and 712 were injured. The apex court by its March 21, 2013 verdict uphold his death sentence while commuting the death sentence of 10 others to life imprisonment. One other had died during the trial.

The apex court on April 9 dismissed Memon's plea for the review of death sentence verdict for the second time as it had earlier dismissed his similar plea seeking the recall of March 21, 2013 verdict.