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Maharashtra: 5 booked for ‘targeting’ Congress’s Muzaffar Hussain, complaint calls mercy petition signed by him for terrorist Yakub Memon as ‘fake’; here’s the truth

OpIndia Staff - 9 November, 2024

The FIR filed by Roy at present blatantly claims that the letter released with the signature of the Mira Bhayandar candidate with Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha emblem on it, seeking clemency of terrorist Yakub Memon is fake

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Meet Muzaffar Hussain, the Congress candidate from Mira Bhayandar who opposed Yakub Memon’s hanging and whose father founded Nayanagar, where Hindus are hardly allowed...

OpIndia Staff - 5 November, 2024

An old letter that looks like a mercy petition for terrorist Yakub Memon, dated 28th July 2015, signed by a Congress candidate from Mira Bhayander seat of Mumbai, Syed Muzzafar Hussain is making rounds on social media. Memon played a crucial role in the 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts.

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Maharashtra: MLA Geeta Jain dismayed at not getting BJP ticket from Mira Bhayandar, says will contest as independent

ANI - 30 October, 2024

Notably, Jain is the sitting independent MLA from the seat, but BJP announced Narendra Mehta as the candidate for the seat for the upcoming assembly polls.