The Supreme Court of India(SCI)on Wednesday July 29,2015 Rejects UPA II Govt's Curative Petition Against Commutation of the Death Penalty of 3 Convicts - Santhan,Murugan and Perarivalan in the Rajiv Gandhi Assassination Case
“We have gone through the curative petitions and the relevant documents. In our opinion, no case is made out within the parameters indicated in the decision of this Court in Rupa Ashok Hurra vs. Ashok Hurra & Another, reported in 2002 (4) SCC 388.
Hence, the curative petitions are dismissed,” a five-judge bench headed by Chief Justice H.L. Dattu said
A 5-Judge Bench headed by Chief Justice H L Dattu (also consists of Justices T S Thakur,H R Dave, Ranjan Gogoi and Shiva KirtiSingh),came on the curative pleas filed by the then UPA government against dismissal of the review petitions.
“We have gone through the curative petitions and the relevant documents. In our opinion, no case is made out within the parameters indicated in the decision of this Court in Rupa Ashok Hurra vs. Ashok Hurra & Another, reported in 2002 (4) SCC 388.
Hence, the curative petitions are dismissed,” a five-judge bench headed by Chief Justice H.L. Dattu said
A 5-Judge Bench headed by Chief Justice H L Dattu (also consists of Justices T S Thakur,H R Dave, Ranjan Gogoi and Shiva KirtiSingh),came on the curative pleas filed by the then UPA government against dismissal of the review petitions.
The
review pleas, challenging the commutation of death penalty to life term
of Santhan, Murugan and Perarivalan, were dismissed by the court in
February 2014 on the ground of 11-year delay in deciding on their
mercy petitions.
The three convicts are lodged in a Vellore prison in Tamil Nadu
Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated on May 21, 1991 at Sriperumbudur in Tamil Nadu.
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