Rajiv Gandhi assassination

The Supreme Court on Fri...

The Supreme Court heard the case of premature release of Perarivalan convicted in Rajiv Gandhi's assassination. Earlier the Supreme Court had converted Perarivalan’s death sentence to life imprisonment on February 18, 2014 on the grounds of delay in deciding his mercy plea by the central government which was a delay of 11 years in total.

The court has extended the parole granted by the Madras High Court to Perarivalan by a week. Last month, owing to the life convict’s multiple health complications in the wake of the pandemic, the Madras High Court had extended his parole by two more weeks. till November 23.

The Supreme Court bench led by Justice L Nageswara Rao, while hearing the parole case of one Rajiv Gandhi assassination convict AG Perarivalan today, expressed dissatisfaction over the huge delay in clearing the file sent to the governor for his consent or disapproval of the prayer or remission.