Convicts can be released by the Tamil Nadu government by granting remission
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NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court will decide on Wednesday whether the seven convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, viz Murugan, Santhan, Perarivalan (whose death sentence was commuted to one of life imprisonment) and that of Nalini, Robert Pius, Jayakumar and Ravichandran, serving life term in the case, can be released by the Tamil Nadu government by granting remission.
Last year, the apex court had stayed their release on a petition filed by the Centre that the TN government had not consulted it before passing an order of release in exercise of its remission powers.
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( Source : deccan chronicle )
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