Authorities of the Madina Masjid, the only glass mosque in the northeast, have decided to christen its library in honour of the "people's president" A.P.J. Abdul Kalam.
The efforts continued till barely a couple of hours before the hanging on Thursday when a three-judge bench of Justice Dipak Misra, Justice Prafulla Pant and Justice Amitava Roy, rejected a final plea, clearing the ground for his execution.
The body of Kalam - warmly called the people's president - was draped in the Indian tricolour and brought to the burial site at Pei Karumbu here in a flower-bedecked gun carriage, escorted by columns of the three armed services.
Besides, the state government announced an ex-gratia grant of Rs.25 lakh to the police officer's family.
Yakub Memon seemed set to go to the gallows with the Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissing his petition against his July 30 execution and a fresh plea for clemency being rejected by President Pranab Mukherjee
The body of Kalam, also a distinguished scientist and a teacher and popularly known as "People's President' and "Missile Man", reached this Hindu pilgrim town, around 600 km from Chennai, in the evening.