Salman Khan tweets Hang Tiger, not Yakub

While most of India slept, superstar Salman Khan unleashed a flurry of tweets against fugitive don and terrorist Tiger Memon, saying he and not his condemned brother Yakub be hanged for the 1993 serial blasts that killed 257 and injured 713.
Starting around 2am, Salman posted 14 tweets in about an hour. The explosive tweets flaying Memon in English and Hindi began with “Hang Tiger" and ended with “Hang that....fill in the blanks." The actor's 13 million Twitter followers 'favourited' and re-tweeted them in a frenzy starting at sunrise.By sunset, a mellower Salman, rapped by his scriptwriter father for tweeting material that had the “potential to create misunderstanding", retracted the tweets and apologized through six posts.
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The earlier tweets caused a flutter on social media, raising the hackles of politicians, religious activists and special public prosecutor in the 1993 blasts trial, Ujjwal Nikam. Protests broke out nationwide. Salman's effigies were burnt and demonstrations led by BJP workers were held outside his Bandra residence, prompting police to boost bandobast there. Around 5pm, Salman tweeted, “I would like to unconditionally apologize for any misunderstanding I may have created (sic) unintentionally."
The actor's pro-Yakub Tweets came a day be fore the Supreme Court was to hear the terror convict's plea to stay his hanging, fixed for July 30 at Nagpur central jail, where he is lodged in a solitary cell. Also on Sunday , more than a dozen prominent citizens -including senior lawyers, politicians, filmmakers and activists -signed and submitted a fresh plea to President Pranab Mukherjee to pardon Yakub. The relevant tweet by Salman was: “1 innocent man killed is killing the (sic) humanity." Nikam said in the morning, “Salman is trying to undermine the image of the judiciary. This is objectionable.He ought to withdraw the tweets."
But exspecial Tada judge P D Kode, who sent Yakub to the gallows in 2007, said the actor was “entitled to his opinion." "People have a habit of expressing (themselves), knowingly or unknowingly, on matters without any basis."
The actor's father, Salim Khan, said his son's “tweets are meaningless."
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