Chennai: The Madras High Court adjourned till March 27 the hearing on the petitions by the three men convicted for assassinating former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi to commute their death sentences, while the Tamil Nadu government filed an additional affidavit in support of their pleas. The court had on August 30 last year stayed the death sentence of Murugan, Santhan and Perarivalan in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case. This trio...
11:06 AM, Jan 31, 2012
Islamabad: Former President Pervez Musharraf will be arrested on his arrival in Pakistan as a court conducting the trial of those charged with involvement in the assassination of former premier Benazir Bhutto has declared him a fugitive,a prosecutor said on Saturday. Musharraf is a "proclaimed offender" or a fugitive who will be arrested on his arrival in the country, Federal Investigation agency prosecutor Chaudhry Zulfiqar Ali told reporters. There is...
05:18 PM, Jan 07, 2012
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Monday moved the Supreme Court seeking death penalty for Babbar Khalsa terrorist Jagtar Singh Hawara. The terrorist is convicted of killing former Punjab chief minister Beant Singh. The move by the CBI came after the Punjab High Court overturned a death sentence and sent him to life imprisonment. Hawara had once escaped from Burail jail in a daring escape but was...
11:27 AM, Dec 05, 2011
New Delhi: The hearing of the petition to commute the death sentences of Rajiv Gandhi's assassins has been adjourned. The Madras High Court will now hear the case on January 31. The court had on Aug 30 stayed the death sentence of Murugan, Santhan and Perarivalan. The trio had earlier sought a stay on their execution on the ground that the President had taken 11 years in deposing their mercy...
12:10 PM, Nov 29, 2011
New Delhi: Witnesses to Benazir Bhutto's assassination are expected to be presented in a Pakistan court on Saturday. The anti- terrorism court on November 5 had indicted seven men including five alleged militants and two police officers. Former Rawalpindi police chief Saud Aziz and ex-Superintendent of Police Khurram Shahzad were indicted by the court along with five alleged members of militant groups who were identified as Hasnain Gul, Rafaqat Hussain,...
09:08 AM, Nov 19, 2011
Vellore: Senior Supreme Court lawyer Ram Jethmalani on Saturday met the three death row convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case at the Central Prison in Vellore. Jethmalani, accompanied by MDMK leader Vaiko, met Murugan, Perarivalan and Santhan, whose hanging has been stayed by the Madras High Court on August 30 on a petition seeking to commute their sentence to life term. Speaking to reporters after the meeting, Jethmalani, who...
06:58 PM, Nov 12, 2011
New Delhi: The hearing of the assassination case of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi was on Friday adjourned till November 29. The Madras High Court had on August 30 stayed the execution of the three accused " Murugan, Santhan and Perarivaian. This trio had earlier sought a stay on their execution on the ground that the President had taken 11 years in deposing their mercy pleas. They had termed the...
11:08 AM, Oct 28, 2011
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday adjourned hearing on a petition seeking transfer of a case pending before Madras High Court in which the execution of death sentence awarded to three assassins of late prime minister Rajiv Gandhi was stayed. It listed the plea for October 19. An apex court bench of Justice GS Singhvi and Justice SJ Mukhopadhaya directed the listing of the plea on October 19 when...
12:22 PM, Oct 10, 2011
New Delhi: On July 27, 2011 Union Ministry for Home Affairs sent Mohammed Afzal Guru's mercy petition to the President recommending that the clemency plea be rejected. It seemed to be all but the end of the road for the Parliament attack convict till Engineer Rashid, Independent member of J&K Assembly stepped in. Taking a cue from the Tamil Nadu Assembly's resolution in favour of Rajiv Gandhi assassins, Rashid moved...
07:31 AM, Sep 28, 2011
Kumbakonam: Demanding the hanging of the three death row convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, Tamil Nadu Youth Congress President M Yuvaraja on Thursday took exception to Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar's stand that the capital punishment be commuted to life imprisonment. "The offenders in the assassination of the former prime minister must be punished. There is no law that delay in execution of the sentence would entail the...
07:47 AM, Sep 15, 2011
Chennai: DMK chief M Karunanidhi on Sunday said that the ruling AIADMK should pass 'on humanitarian grounds' a resolution at its cabinet meeting urging the President to reconsider clemency petitions of the three death row convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case and forward it to Governor K Rosaiah. The government, he said, should not think its job was over just by passing a unanimous resolution in the Assembly. "On...
07:18 PM, Sep 11, 2011
Vellore: Former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi's assassins Nalini Sriharan met her husband Murugan at Vellore jail on Saturday morning. This is Nalini's first meeting with Murugan after the President rejected his mercy plea in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case. Nalini was shifted to Vellore Jail a few days ago and had not met her husband for over a year. The Madras High Court had ordered a stay on the hanging...
09:12 AM, Sep 10, 2011
Sriperumbudur: Twenty years ago the suicide blast that killed the former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi also claimed 16 other lives. CNN-IBN met up with the families of the victims to get their views 20 years on. With continuing politics over the death sentence of the three convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination, the case refuses to die down. But back in Sriperumbudur where it all happened, the families that lost...
09:13 AM, Sep 05, 2011
New Delhi: The Centre on Thursday steered clear of the controversy over Tamil Nadu Assembly asking the President to reconsider the mercy pleas of Rajiv Gandhi's killers but said as long as death sentence is legal, courts will continue to award it. "Since there are court proceedings, I can't comment on anything concerning the decision taken by the President or the resolution passed by the Assembly," Home Minister P Chidambaram...
05:53 PM, Sep 01, 2011
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