The Narendra Modi government has asked the Supreme Court to "show no mercy to Rajiv Gandhi's killers".


The Supreme Court said today that the Centre has a parental duty to voice the grief of families who lost loved ones in the 1991 assassination of former Rajiv Gandhi in Sriperumbudur and challenged the Tamil Nadu governments decision to "tinker" and order the release of convicts whose death penalty was commuted to life imprisonment in the case.

The five-judge Constitution Bench led by Chief Justice of India HL Dattu said this while dismissing Tamil Nadu's preliminary challenge to how the Centre can file a public interest litigation in Supreme Court questioning the States' decision to use their power of remission and order release of life convicts, including in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case.


In February 2014, the Tamil Nadu Government decided to release all the seven members, who are convicted in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case.