Madurai: A PIL seeking to reinvestigate the the assassination case of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi has been filed in the Madras High Court bench in Madurai on Tuesday. The petitioner V Santhakumaresan, an advocate, said in his PIL that "the reinvestigation, in the interest of justice, may bring out buried truths".
The important grounds under which the petitioner sought reinvestigation included the reported statement of CBI investigating officer Ragothaman in an interview to a Tamil channel recently that the video clippings and recorded tapes of the case had not been handed over to the Special Investigation team. The Supreme Court had given two different views on hanging cases (in the cases of Bhullar and Mahendra Das).
Santhan, Murugan and Perarivalan, who were facing death sentence in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case should be protected against this background, the petitioner said. There was no tangible evidence to prove the involvement of LTTE in the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi, he said.
He said he had given representation to Secretary, External Affairs, Director of Research and Analysis Wing and Additional Director of CBI to reinvestigate the case. But no action had been taken so far....
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03:27 PM, May 28, 2013
Chennai: The video conferencing session of Perarivalan, a death row convict in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, with the Chief Information Commissioner planned on Monday over his RTI query has been postponed, a top police official said. "The session has been postponed. There is no information on when would be the next session," ADGP (Prisons) JK Tripathy told PTI. The hearing was to take place today on Perarivalan's Right to...
07:04 PM, Apr 15, 2013
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Vellore (TN): Perarivalan and Murugan, facing the gallows in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case and lodged at the high-security prison in Vellore, have cleared the Class XII state board exams with flying colours, scoring a little over 91 per cent and 81 per cent respectively. Perarivalan (41) and Murugan (43) scored 1096 and 983 marks respectively out of a total of 1200 in the exam, results of which were announced...
06:30 PM, May 22, 2012
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...
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The Madras High Court stayed the execution of the former PM Rajiv Gandhi's assassins for eight weeks. ...
11:58 PM, Aug 30, 2011
Chennai: The Madras High Court on Tuesday ordered a stay on hanging of Murugan alias Sriharan, Santhan and Perarivalan alias Arivu convicted for Rajiv Gandhi's assassination for another eight weeks, giving them a brief reprieve. Twenty one years after the assassination of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, it's now at least another eight more weeks of legal drama before a decision is taken on whether or not three of the...
11:22 PM, Aug 30, 2011
Chennai: In a major relief for three convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, the Madras High Court on Tuesday stayed their hanging which was scheduled on September 9. Hearing their mercy petition the High Court gave interim relief for eight weeks to Murugan alias Sriharan, Santhan and Perarivalan alias Arivu. The Centre and the Tamil Nadu government will file a counter affidavit in the case within eight weeks in...
11:37 AM, Aug 30, 2011
New Delhi: The Madras High Court will hear the review petition filed on behalf of the three convicts facing execution for the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi even as politics over their death sentence gathers pace. In Tamil Nadu, pro-Tamil groups have stepped up efforts to stall the execution of Rajiv Gandhi's killers. Should Murugan alias Sriharan, Santhan and Perarivalan alias Arivu be hanged on September 9? The case of the...
08:09 PM, Aug 29, 2011
Chennai: Three convicts sentenced to death in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case have filed a petition in the Madras High Court. Chandrashekharan N filed a petition on behalf of the three convicts - Murugan, Santhan and Perarivalan - on grounds of executive delay of over 11 years before rejecting the mercy plea of the prisoners. The court will hear the petition on Tuesday. Advocates Ram Jethmalani and Mohit Choudhary will...
12:04 PM, Aug 29, 2011
Chennai: The CPI state council on Sunday announced its members would observe a fast across Tamil Nadu on September 3 to seek cancellation of the death sentences awarded to three persons in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case. Calling upon all its alliance parties to take part, a party release said the fast would be observed in district headquarters across the state. CPI state secretary D Pandian had also written a...
10:24 PM, Aug 28, 2011
New Delhi: President Pratibha Patil has rejected the clemency petitions of three killers of Rajiv Gandhi whose death sentences were confirmed by the Supreme Court in 2000. The apex court had sentenced members of the banned Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam (LTTE) Murugan, Santhan, Perarivalan and Nalini to death in 1999 for the assassination of the former prime minister in Sriperumbudur on May 21, 1991. A Rasthrapati Bhavan spokesperson said...
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