LM NEWS 24
LM NEWS 24

Tamil Nadu CM Stalin asks President to remit sentences of 7 Rajiv Gandhi assassination case convicts

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin on Thursday urged President Ram Nath Kovind to accept the State Government’s recommendation in September 2018 and pass orders to remit the life sentences of all the seven convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case.

In the letter, Stalin asked the President to direct their immediate release and argued that the convicts have been ‘undergoing the agony of imprisonment for about three decades’. The letter mentioned the convicts – S Nalini, Murugan, Santhan, AG Perarivalan, Jayakumar, Robert Payas, and P Ravichandran.

The Chief Minister pointed out the original death sentences of Nalini and three others had been commuted by the Supreme Court to life imprisonment. “The majority of political parties in Tamil Nadu have been requesting the remission of the remainder of their sentences and for the immediate release of all the 7 convicts… This is also the will of the people of Tamil Nadu,” the letter read.

He further reminded that the same had been requested by the Tamil Nadu government on September 9, 2018.
“The purported obstacle for exercise of the power of remission was the pendency of the investigation by the Multi-Disciplinary Monitorung Agency of CBI,” the Chief Minister wrote, adding that it has been clarified by the respective stands of the Union Government and CBI before the Supreme Court that there is no connection between the remission of the sentence and investigation.

He further said that the seven had already suffered ‘untold hardship and agony in the past three decades’ and had paid a ‘heavy price’.

“There has already been an iordinate delay in the consideration of their pleas for remission,” he wrote, mentioning that in the present COVID-19 pandemic situation, courts were also recognising the need to decongest prisons.
Gandhi was assassinated on the night of May 21, 1991 at Sriperumbudur in Tamil Nadu by a suicide bomber, identified as Dhanu, at a poll rally.

ANI

0 0 votes
Article Rating
Subscribe
Notify of
guest
0 Comments
Oldest
Newest Most Voted
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments

We use cookies to give you the best online experience. By agreeing you accept the use of cookies in accordance with our cookie policy.

Privacy Settings saved!
Privacy Settings

When you visit any web site, it may store or retrieve information on your browser, mostly in the form of cookies. Control your personal Cookie Services here.

These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the website and use its features. Without these cookies basic services cannot be provided.

Cookie generated by applications based on the PHP language. This is a general purpose identifier used to maintain user session variables. It is normally a random generated number, how it is used can be specific to the site, but a good example is maintaining a logged-in status for a user between pages.
  • PHPSESSID

Used on sites built with Wordpress. Tests whether or not the browser has cookies enabled
  • wordpress_test_cookie

In order to use this website we use the following technically required cookies
  • wordpress_test_cookie
  • wordpress_logged_in_
  • wordpress_sec

Decline all Services
Accept all Services
0
Would love your thoughts, please comment.x
()
x