Rajiv case: Review petitions may be filed on Tuesday

Assassins Murugan, Santhan and Perarivalan are scheduled to be hanged on September 9

PTI | August 29, 2011



A mention about an impending petition seeking review of the President's order rejecting the clemency pleas of three Rajiv Gandhi assassins was made in the Madras High Court on Monday.

Senior counsel V Chandrasekaran made the mention on the subject before Justice Paul Vasanthkumar, who told him to file the petition, which could be heard on Tuesday.

The assassins Murugan, Santhan and Perarivalan are scheduled to be hanged on September 9.

 

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'No interference needed in decision to hang Rajiv assassins'

Amid demands for commuting the sentence of three Rajiv Gandhi assassins, Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy on Monday said there should no interference in the decision to hang the three.

"No power under the Constitution can now stop the hanging of these three convicts whose mercy petitions have been rejected. Hence, Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa has correctly stated that she cannot interfere," he said in a statement in Delhi.

He said after 12 years of "inaction" by the Union Governments a decision has finally been taken by the government and "just in time in view of my threat to file a PIL in the Supreme Court after August 15, 2011 if no action was taken."

"There should be no further interference in the decision to hang these three convicts on September 9. India can no more be perceived as a soft state when it comes to terrorists," he said.

Swamy also said commuting of another convict Nalini Sriharan's death sentence "can be set aside" by courts.

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