Rajiv Gandhi Case: SC orders release of Perarivalan, will come out of jail after 30 years
New Delhi | Rajiv Gandhi Case: The Supreme Court of the country has convicted AG in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case. Perarivalan was ordered to be released on Wednesday. Please tell that the accused is in jail for the last 30 years and was serving a life sentence. Justice L. A bench headed by Nageswara Rao, exercising its privilege under Article 142, ordered the release of Perarivalan. The bench said during the hearing that the state cabinet had taken its decision on the basis of relevant deliberations. Using Article 142, it would be appropriate to release the guilty.
The #SupremeCourt Wednesday will pass a judgement on a plea seeking the release of AG #perarivalanone of the life convicts in the #RajivGandhi assassination case.
Here’s a timeline of the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case. https://t.co/xrrtE2o49G
— Express Chennai (@ie_chennai) May 18, 2022
No complaint received regarding conduct
Rajiv Gandhi Case: Article 142 of the Constitution gives privileges to the SC, under which its decision is considered to be of paramount importance till no other law is enforced in the matter concerned. AG Perarivalan, the assassin of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, was granted bail by the court on March 9 after observing that no complaint was received regarding his conduct while serving sentence and parole. The top court was hearing 47-year-old Perarivalan’s plea seeking suspension of his life sentence till the completion of the investigation by the ‘Multi-Disciplinary Monitoring Agency’ (MDMA).
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“I think this is a humanitarian gesture, the release is guided by humanitarian values and principles,” says A Saravanan (@saravofcl), DMK spokesperson, on the release of Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination convict AG Perarivalan. pic.twitter.com/wnzhb73VYt
— NDTV (@ndtv) May 18, 2022
The decision was changed in 2014…
Rajiv Gandhi Case: On May 21, 1991, a female suicide bomber blew herself up during an election rally in Sriperumbudur, Tamil Nadu. Rajiv Gandhi was killed in this. The woman was identified as Dhanu. The court in its May 1999 order had upheld the death sentence awarded to the four convicts, Perarivalan, Murugan, Santhan and Nalini. On February 18, 2014, the apex court commuted the death sentences of Perarivalan, Santhan and Murugan to life imprisonment. The court had decided to commute the death sentence to life imprisonment on the basis of the delay of 11 years in disposal of their mercy petitions by the central government.
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