Rajiv Gandhi Assassination Case

Santhan alias T Suthendiraraja (55), a Sri Lankan national, was one of the seven persons set free by the Supreme Court of India in 2022 after they served over 20 years in jail in connection with the assassination of Gandhi in Sriperumbudur near here in 1991.

Rajiv Gandhi assassination case: Centre moves SC seeking review of order for premature release of 6 convicts

The Centre said the order granting remission to the convicts, who had assassinated the former prime minister, was passed without affording it adequate opportunity for hearing despite it being a necessary party to the case.

Nalini Sriharan, four other convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi case walk out from TN prisons

Immediately after she was released from the special prison for women in Vellore, Nalini went to the Vellore central prison from where her husband V Sriharan alias Murugan was released and became emotional upon seeing him.

Rajiv Gandhi convicts likely to be released today

The prison officials set into motion the process of releasing all six of them including four Sri Lankan nationals, following the receipt of the Supreme Court's Friday order copy setting them at liberty.

Rajiv Gandhi assassination case: SC notice to Centre, Tamil Nadu on Nalini's plea seeking premature release

A bench of Justices B R Gavai and B V Nagarathna issued notices to the Centre and the Tamil Nadu government and sought their replies on the plea.

Rajiv Gandhi assassination case: Convict Nalini moves SC seeking premature release

The high court had on June 17 rejected the petitions of Nalini Sriharan and Ravichandran, both convicted in the former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, to order their release without even the consent of the state's governor.

AG Perarivalan Release: Congress says deeply pained but ally Stalin differs, calling it historic

The DMK is one of the closest allies of the Congress and the two parties contested 2021 Tamil Nadu assembly polls together. The differing stance comes days after Rahul Gandhi’s remarks about regional parties' inability to fight the battle of ideology

Supreme Court orders release of AG Perarivalan convicted in Rajiv Gandhi assassination

The Supreme Court invoked its powers under Article 142 to direct AG Perarivalan's release, which comes three days ahead of the thirty-first death anniversary of the former prime minister

Rajiv Gandhi case convict Nalini out of jail on parole for 30 days

Imprisoned since 1991, this is the first time Nalini will be out on parole for 30 days. She had been out of on parole earlier as well, but not for a period that extends to a month.

Rajiv Gandhi assassination: HC allows Nalini Sriharan to appear in person to argue on plea for leave

Former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated by a LTTE suicide bomber during an election rally at Sriperumpudur near here on May 21, 1991.

Sad at TN govt decision to free Rajiv assassins: Rahul

The Congress Vice President, who was 21 when Rajiv was killed by a suicide bomber at an election rally in Sriperumbedur, near Chennai, on May 21, 1991, at the same time said he was not in favour of death penalty.

Rajiv killers get flying colours in Class XII exams

Perarivalan and Murugan, facing the gallows in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case and lodged at the high-security prison here, have cleared the Class XII state board exams with flying colours, scoring a little over 91% and 81% respectively.