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SC to hear death convicts' plea in Rajiv Gandhi assassination case
January 29, 2014
The Supreme Court will take up the plea of three death convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case -- who are seeking commutation of their death sentence to life imprisonment citing delay of over 11 years in deciding their mercy petitions by the President.
A bench headed by Chief Justice P Sathasivam turned down the plea of the Centre which pleaded for posting the case for another day after senior advocate Ram Jethmalani, appearing for the condemned prisoners Santhan, Murugan and Perarivalan, said he suspected that the government is trying to delay the case.