On July 30, just one and half hour before Yakub Memon’s hanging, Yakub’s elder brother and one of the main accused of 1993 Mumbai Bomb Blast, Tiger Memon called his family on phone and promised them that he will take revenge of his brother’s murder.
It has been 22 years, since Mushtaq Tiger Memon ran out of India as he and Dawood Ibrahim were the two masterminds of 1993 Mumbai Blast. He called up on the landline number and talked to his mother and an unidentified family member. The phone calls of Memon family were being scrutinized by a wing of Mumbai Police and as per their record, Tiger seem angry more than being sad on his brother’s fate and he keep saying to his mother that he will make them payback for this, he said “Main unko chukwaonga (I will make them pay).” He also said, “tears of the family will not go waste”.
The grief stricken mother Hanifa didn’t wanted to talk to Tiger but the unidentified family member persisted that she should talk to “Bhaijaan”. She can be heard crying on and asking Tiger to bring a full stop to violence as she said “Bas ho gaya. Pehle ke vajah se mera Yakub gaya ab aur nahi main dekh sakti. (Stop this, due to the first incident, I have lost Yakub. Now I can’t bear to see any more people dying).” However, these requests of Hanifa didn’t have any effect on Tiger and he repeated that he will take revenge.
Here’s transcript of the call:-
Tiger: “Salam walikum Ammi khairiyat.”
Listening this – the mother Hanifa starts crying.
Tiger then says: “Zulm ki inteha ho gayi hai. Zaya nahi jayega,” (This is the height of injustice, this will not go waste.) And repeats it one more time: “Yeh sab zaya nahi jayega,”
Yakub’s mother starts crying more on the phone now.
So Tiger promises: “Tum ro mat ammi iska inko izafa dena hoga.”
Hanfia says something which is inaudible-
Tiger: “main unko chukwaonga” (I will make them pay)
Tiger’s mother replies: “Bas ho gaya, Pehle ke vajah se mera Yakub gaya ab aur nahin main dekh sakti, main nahi dekh sakti, main nahi dekh sakti”
And begins to cry again.
Another guy takes phone from Tiger’s mother & says: “Bhai…”
Tiger says: “usko sambhalo, sabko sambhalo”
Guy replies: “Woh abhi baat nahi karengi woh ro rahi hai. sab ro rahe hain.”
Tiger: “Sabke asoo zaya nahi jayenge” (Everyone’s tears will not go waste)
“Sabka khayal rakho” (Take care of everyone)
Guy : “Dua pado bhai” (Recite some prayers)
The phone gets cut then.
Maharashtra Police and Intelligence Agencies are into high alert mode as they are pretty sure that Tiger will try to do what he has promised to his family members.