India has executed Yakub Memon, the man convicted of financing the terror attack, 22 years after the deadly Mumbai bombings.
Memon was hanged at a prison in Nagpur in the western state, hours after the Supreme Court dismissed a final plea to stay the sentence.
The 1993 serial were allegedly carried out to avenge the killing of Muslims in riots, a few months earlier.
The execution came despite the fact that India rarely carries out death sentences. Only three people had been executed since 2004.
Lawyers and activists had petitioned on behalf of Memon to Supreme Court Chief Justice, H L Dattu, after Indian President, Pranab Mukherjee, rejected a clemency plea late on Wednesday.
His lawyers had argued to the Supreme Court that executions are only to be carried out after seven days have passed, following the rejection of a mercy petition.
In March 1993, a series of bombs ripped through the capital of Mumbai’s financial district, killing at least 257 people and injuring a thousand others.
The Bombay Stock Exchange, the offices of Air India and a luxury hotel were among about a dozen targets of the blasts.
The attack remains the most devastating attack on Indian soil and came after a series of Hindu-Muslim riots in Mumbai.
Of the 11 suspects sentenced in 2007 for their role in the devastating attacks, Memon was the only one sentenced to death. He was convicted for being “the driving spirit” behind the attacks.
Meanwhile, his brother ‘Tiger’ Memon and fellow alleged collaborator, Dawood Ibrahim, are still believed to be hiding in Pakistan.
The lone surviving gunman from the 2008 Mumbai attacks was hanged in 2012, while a Kashmiri separatist was executed in New Delhi, the following year, after being convicted of involvement in a deadly 2001 attack on the Indian parliament.
