Supreme Court of India(SCI)Upholds Verdict commuting Rajiv killers death sentence Tuesday April 01,12014

The Supreme Court on Tuesday April 01,12014 declined to review its February 18 judgment commuting the death sentence of three convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, Murugan, Santhan and Perarivalan, into life imprisonment.

A three-judge bench of Chief Justice P. Sathasivam and Justices Ranjan Gogoi and Shiva Kirti Singh in a brief order passed in the CJI’s chamber said, “We have carefully gone through the review petition and the connected papers. We find no merit in the review petition and the same is accordingly dismissed.”

The Bench had already rejected the review petition filed by the Centre against the January 21,2014 verdict commuting the death sentence of 15 convicts, including some of the associates of forest brigand Veerappan.

The convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assasination case were granted reprieve applying the principles enunciated in the January 21,2014 verdict.