{"id":12945,"date":"2011-08-29T21:36:04","date_gmt":"2011-08-29T16:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=12945"},"modified":"2011-08-29T21:36:04","modified_gmt":"2011-08-29T16:06:04","slug":"rajiv-gandhi-killers-move-court-for-stay-of-hanging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/rajiv-gandhi-killers-move-court-for-stay-of-hanging","title":{"rendered":"Rajiv Gandhi killers move court for stay of hanging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Rajiv-Gandhi.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"12946\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/rajiv-gandhi-killers-move-court-for-stay-of-hanging\/rajiv-gandhi\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/08\/Rajiv-Gandhi.jpg?fit=114%2C144&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"114,144\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Rajiv-Gandhi\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/08\/Rajiv-Gandhi.jpg?fit=114%2C144&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/08\/Rajiv-Gandhi.jpg?fit=114%2C144&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-12946\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Rajiv-Gandhi.jpg?resize=114%2C144&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"114\" height=\"144\" \/><\/a>The three convicts facing the gallows for their involvement in the assassination of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi Monday moved the Madras High Court to stay their Sep 9 hanging.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0MDMK general secretary Vaiko and advocate N. Chandrasekaran filed the petition on behalf of the condemned prisoners &#8211; Murugan, Perarivalan and Santhan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Vaiko has filed the petition on behalf of Perarivalan. Vaiko is the counsel on record. Senior advocate Ram Jethmalani will appear for Perarivalan. The case is expected to come up for hearning Tuesday morning,&#8221; MDMK legal wing secretary G. Devadoss told.<\/p>\n<p>The petition will be heard by Justice Paul Vasanthakumar Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>On Aug 11, President Pratibha Patil rejected the mercy petitions of the trio, linked to the LTTE and sentenced to death for involvement in the 1991 assassination.<\/p>\n<p>A woman suicide bomber blew herself up, killing Gandhi, prime minister of India from 1984 to 1989, at an election rally in Sriperumbudur near Chennai May 21, 1991.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from Gandhi, 14 others also lost their lives in the blast.<\/p>\n<p>In 1998, all the 26 accused in the case &#8211; including the three &#8211; were sentenced to die by a special trial court for Gandhi&#8217;s killing.<\/p>\n<p>In 1999, the Supreme Court confirmed the death sentences of four: Murugan, Santhan and Perarivalan and Nalini, an Indian woman who had assisted the killer squad. The capital punishment of the others was reduced to varying terms of imprisonment.<\/p>\n<p>The death sentence of Nalini, who became a mother in prison, was commuted to life imprisonment after her mercy petition was accepted. The petition had the recommendation of Sonia Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi&#8217;s widow.<\/p>\n<p>Murugan, Santhan and Perarivalan and the others were charged with criminal conspiracy that led to the killing.<\/p>\n<p>Soon after the confirmation of their sentence, they made a mercy plea to the Indian president, which was rejected Aug 11.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The three convicts facing the gallows for their involvement in the assassination of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi Monday moved the Madras High Court to stay their Sep 9 hanging. \u00a0MDMK general secretary Vaiko and advocate N. Chandrasekaran filed the petition on behalf of the condemned prisoners &#8211; Murugan, Perarivalan and Santhan. &#8220;Vaiko has filed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[84],"tags":[4999,4998,4010,2224,4997,47726],"class_list":["post-12945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-criminal-law-news","tag-assassination-of-rajiv-gandhi","tag-court-for-stay-of-hanging","tag-madras-high-court","tag-president-pratibha-patil","tag-rajiv-gandhi-killers","tag-supreme-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Rajiv Gandhi killers move court for stay of hanging<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The three convicts facing the gallows for their involvement in the assassination of former prime minister Rajiv\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/rajiv-gandhi-killers-move-court-for-stay-of-hanging\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rajiv Gandhi killers move court for stay of hanging\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The three convicts facing the gallows for their involvement in the assassination of former prime minister Rajiv\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/rajiv-gandhi-killers-move-court-for-stay-of-hanging\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Legal News India - Supreme Court &amp; 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Nalini, who was lodged in Vellore Prison for the last\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Top Law News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Top Law News","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/category\/top-law-news"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":15063,"url":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/rajivs-case-reconsider-mercy-plea-govt-tells-high-court","url_meta":{"origin":12945,"position":4},"title":"Rajiv`s case: Reconsider mercy plea, Govt tells High Court","author":"Legal India Admin","date":"November 29, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"The Tamil Nadu Government today filed a petition before Madras High Court seeking to commute the death sentence of three convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, even as the Court adjourned further hearing in the case to January 31, 2012. 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