On the same day that reports emerged that Mushtaq “Tiger” Memon had called up his family vowing to avenge his brother Yakub’s hanging by India, Justice Mishra, the judge who dismissed Yakub’s plea against his execution, has been threatened.According to reports, Justice Dipak Mishra has received an anonymous letter which has threatened the Supreme Court judge, and adds that even increased security would not help him.Mishra was part of the three-judge-SC bench that had rejected Yakub’s final plea, hours before he was executed.All three judges including Amitav Roy and Prafulla Pant had received increased security following Yakub’s hanging.The threat to Mishra incidentally comes on the same day that reports emerged that Yakub’s brother Tiger, the prime accused in the Mumbai serial blasts of 1993, had called up his family barely an hour prior to Yakub’s death.A report in The Economic Times details the conversation Tiger is said to have had with his mother after calling his family’s residence in Mahim at 5:35 a.m. on July 30.The report mentions that a wing of the Mumbai police had been monitoring the conversation and had recorded it.As the call came, an unidentified male member in the Memon household picked up the phone and the report mentions that there was a feeling of familiarity in their conversation.Memon’s mother then came on the line and Tiger is said to have repeated to her that her son’s death will be avenged even though she asked him to not resort to further violence which would help no one.“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),” she reportedly told him.“Main unko chukwaonga (I will make them pay),” he told her, adding that “tears of the family will not go waste.”The report adds that the Mumbai police tried to trace where the call came from but were unable to do so as it was made via a Voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP) service and Tiger’s IP address kept changing.
