{"id":49418,"date":"2017-08-11T07:46:30","date_gmt":"2017-08-11T02:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=49418"},"modified":"2017-08-11T07:46:30","modified_gmt":"2017-08-11T02:16:30","slug":"rajiv-assassination-case-sc-hear-centres-plea-aug-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/rajiv-assassination-case-sc-hear-centres-plea-aug-14","title":{"rendered":"Rajiv assassination case: SC to hear Centre&#8217;s plea on Aug 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_49419\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-49419\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/08\/Rajiv-Gandhi.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"49419\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/rajiv-assassination-case-sc-hear-centres-plea-aug-14\/rajiv-gandhi-3\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/08\/Rajiv-Gandhi.jpg?fit=700%2C397&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"700,397\" 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;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&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\/2017\/08\/Rajiv-Gandhi.jpg?fit=300%2C170&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/08\/Rajiv-Gandhi.jpg?fit=640%2C363&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-49419 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/08\/Rajiv-Gandhi.jpg?resize=300%2C170&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Rajiv assassination case: SC to hear Centre's plea on Aug 14\" width=\"300\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/08\/Rajiv-Gandhi.jpg?resize=300%2C170&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/08\/Rajiv-Gandhi.jpg?resize=150%2C85&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/08\/Rajiv-Gandhi.jpg?w=700&amp;ssl=1 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-49419\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rajiv assassination case: SC to hear Centre&#8217;s plea on Aug 14<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Supreme Court today agreed to hear on Monday a plea of the Centre challenging the Tamil Nadu government&#8217;s decision to release the convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case.<\/p>\n<p>The Centre had filed the plea in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>A bench headed by Justice Ranjan Gogoi considered the submission of Prabu Ramasubramaniam, the counsel for convict A G Perarivalan, that the case be heard as the convicts are in jail for the last two decades.<\/p>\n<p>The lawyer said the matter had been listed quite a few times in the past, but it got deleted from the list.<\/p>\n<p>Besides Perarivalan, six other persons&#8211;Murugan, Shantan, Robert Pais, Nalini, Jayakumar and Ravichandran&#8211;were convicted in the case.<\/p>\n<p>The apex court had in 2014 stayed the Tamil Nadu government&#8217;s decision to release the convicts and had set up a five-judge Constitution Bench to deal with the issue relating to the power of states and the Centre to grant the benefit of remission and pardon to convicts.<\/p>\n<p>The apex court had held that the state government cannot unilaterally determine remission of sentences in cases where the probe had been conducted by central government agencies.<\/p>\n<p>The Constitution Bench, however, had said the issue &#8212; whether convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case can be granted remission or not &#8212; would be handled by a three-judge bench.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The bench has been set up, but no hearing has taken place so far,&#8221; the lawyer said.<\/p>\n<p>Out of the seven convicts, Nalini was awarded death sentence, which was later commuted to life imprisonment by the state government.<\/p>\n<p>Three others, including her husband Murugan (Sriharan), were sentenced to death and the rest were given life term by the Supreme Court for their role in Gandhi&#8217;s assassination on May 21, 1991 at Sriperumbudur.<\/p>\n<p>The apex court had later commuted the death sentence of the other three on the grounds of inordinate delay in disposal of their mercy petitions.<\/p>\n<p>( Source &#8211; PTI )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court today agreed to hear on Monday a plea of the Centre challenging the Tamil Nadu government&#8217;s decision to release the convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case. 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