New Delhi – The centre government has filed a review petition in the Supreme Court against the recent November 11 orders of Apex court in which all the convicts of Rajiv Gandhi assassination case are released saying that the order was passed without hearing it.
In the petition, it is said the matter related to the assassination of a former Prime Minister, the Court ought to have heard the Union Government before passing the order but it was not done. The centre government mentioned in review petition that the applicants or petitioners should have made Union government a party while filing their petitions.
It is pertinent to mention that the bench of Justice BR Gavai and BV Nagarathna had passed the order allowing the premature release of 6 convicts in the case Robert Paris , Ravichandran, Nalini Sriharan , Murugan and Jai Kumar based on recommendations made by the Tamil Nadu Government in 2018 to commute their sentence.
As many as 25 accused including the appellants were sentenced to death by TADA court for the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi in 1991. When the matter moved to Supreme Court , a bench headed by Justice KT Thomas acquitted 19 convicts but upheld the capital punishment of four of them.
