The Congress Friday referred to as the Supreme Courtroom’s choice to launch the remaining six convicts within the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case “completely unacceptable” and “fully misguided”. The six convicts whose launch was ordered by the apex court docket embody Nalini Sriharan, R P Ravichandran, Santhan, Murugan, Robert Payas and Jayakumar.
Taking to Twitter, the get together’s Normal Secretary in-charge communications Jairam Ramesh mentioned, “The Congress get together criticises it clearly and finds it wholly untenable”.
My assertion on the choice of the Supreme Courtroom to free the remaining killers of former PM Shri. Rajiv Gandhi pic.twitter.com/ErwqnDGZLc
— Jairam Ramesh (@Jairam_Ramesh) November 11, 2022
“It’s most unlucky that the Supreme Courtroom has not acted in consonance with the spirit of India on this situation,” he added.
The bench, comprising Justices BR Gavai and BV Nagarathna, handed the order whereas considering the case of A G Perarivalan, one other convict who was launched in Could.
Nalini, who’s at present out on parole, had filed a petition after the apex court docket on Could 18 ordered the discharge of Perarivalan, who had served greater than 30 years in jail, by exercising its particular powers underneath the Structure’s Article 142. The Article permits the highest court docket to go orders to make sure “full justice” in a case.
Former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi was killed by an LTTE suicide bomber at an election assembly in Tamil Nadu’s Sriperumbudur on Could 21, 1991. Seven convicts had been sentenced to life phrases within the case.
In 1999, the Supreme Courtroom sentenced 4 of them to loss of life and the opposite three to life imprisonment. In 2000, the loss of life sentence of Nalini was commuted to life. In 2014, the Supreme Courtroom commuted the opposite three loss of life sentences, together with that of Perarivalan.