New Delhi: Those who killed the former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in a diabolical manner does not deserve any mercy and are not entitled for grant of remission and release, the Supreme Court held on Wednesday.
A five-judge Constitution bench rejected the submissions that the ray of hope of remission available for a life convict after 14 years of sentence cannot be denied to the Rajiv killers. The Bench said, “it must be stated that such ray of hope was much more for the victims who were done to death and whose dependents were to suffer the aftermath with no solace left.”
“Therefore, when the dreams of such victims in whatever manner and extent it was planned, with reference to oneself, his or her dependents and everyone surrounding him was demolished in an unmindful and in some cases in a diabolic manner in total violation of the Rule of Law which is prevailing in an organized society, they cannot be heard to say only their rays of hope should prevail and kept intact,” the bench said.
