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Rajiv Gandhi assassination case: SC orders release of 6 convicts

First Published: 11th November, 2022 17:46 IST

Rajiv Gandhi assassination case: 6 convicts Nalini, Ravichandran, Jayakumar, Suthenthiraraja @ Santhan, Murugan, Robert Pius to be released.

Historic judgement by Supreme Court. 6 convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case will walk out free after more than 3 decades of serving life imprisonment. This is a big development after the apex court order premature release of the 6 convicts

The six convicts are: Nalini, Ravichandran, Jayakumar, Suthenthiraraja @ Santhan, Murugan and Robert Pius.

The previous AIADMK government had in September 2018 recommended to the then TN Governor Banwarilal Purohit, the release of all seven convicts in the high profile Rajiv Gandhi assassination case. One of the seven, Perarivalan, was freed by the Supreme Court earlier this year.

“The appellants are directed to be set at liberty if not required in any other matter”, the bench ordered.

A bench comprising Justices BR Gavai and BV Nagarathna passed the order following the direction passed on May 17 which granted relief to Perarivalan, another convict in the case.

The bench noted that the order of Perarivalan is applicable to the present applicants and that the convicts have spent over three decades in prison. The conduct of the 6 convicts in the prison was satisfactory, the bench noted.

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