An Indian man found guilty of financing deadly bombings in Mumbai in 1993 has made a last-ditch appeal to the Supreme Court to suspend his execution.
Yakub Memon says the authorities did not follow proper legal procedures in issuing the warrant for his death.
On Tuesday the court rejected a plea for mercy - paving the way for his execution, possibly later this month.
The serial blasts killed 257 people and were allegedly to avenge the killing of Muslims in riots a few months earlier.
Another 713 were wounded in the bomb blasts in India's financial capital, then called Bombay.
Reports quoting Memon's lawyer said his death warrant was issued before the Supreme Court dismissed the mercy plea.
India rarely sentences people to death - and even more rarely carries out executions. There have been three since 1995.