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The Supreme Court this Tuesday dismissed the petition by the Central Government asking for a review of its ruling to change the death sentence of the three convicts, accused in the assassination of the former prime minister of India Rajiv Gandhi, to life imprisonment. “We have carefully gone through the review petition and the connected papers. We find no merit in the review petition and the same is accordingly dismissed,” said the apex court in its order.
On the 18th of February, the apex court had ordered the death sentence of the three men to life in prison. Santhan, Murugan and Perarivalan had petitioned the apex court against their death sentence, arguing that there had been an exceptional delay in a decision on their mercy pleas. Later on the 19th of February, the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa informed that the state cabinet will apply powers applicable to it under the Constitution to release the three convicted assassinators of Rajiv Gandhi, if the Central Government failed to act on the same within the next three days. She also added that the other convicts who had been sentenced to life imprisonment, namely, Nalini, Jayakumar, Robert Paes and Ravichandran, would also be released.
The decision of the Tamil Nadu was later stalled by the Supreme Court and acting on a petition filed by the Centre, the apex court issued a notice to the Tamil Nadu government restraining it from releasing the convicts and directed it to maintain status quo till further orders. Rajiv Gandhi was killed by a suicide bomber at an election rally on the 21st of May, 1991. Fourteen other people had also lost their lives in that blast.
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