Rajiv Gandhi assassination convicts deserve death sentence: SC

Last Updated: Thursday, January 30, 2014, 21:06

Prisoners convicted in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case deserve the death sentence, the Supreme Court said on Thursday as it refused to go into the merits of their conviction.

Rajiv Gandhi assassination case: SC to decide on commutation of death penalty on Thursday

Last Updated: Wednesday, January 29, 2014, 06:47

Supreme Court will take up the plea to commute the death sentences of three death row convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case taking into account long delay of their mercy petitions on Thursday.

Rajiv Gandhi assassination: Perarivalan`s mother alleges sons`s imprisonment `unjustified`

Last Updated: Monday, January 6, 2014, 23:20

Mother of a death row convict in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case on Monday alleged that the imprisonment of her son for over 22 years was unjustified "since the conviction was based on his confessional statement that lacked clarity and facts".

Rajiv Gandhi assassination case: Notice to CBI

Last Updated: Friday, September 20, 2013, 09:10

A special TADA court issued notice to the Central Bureau of Investigation on a petition by death row convict in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, AG Perarivalan, seeking a direction to the agency to investigate the `left out area` of earlier probe.

John Abraham’s `Madras Cafe` bags its first award

Last Updated: Wednesday, September 18, 2013, 15:18

John Abraham has been conferred with the Pride of Nation Award for his film Madras Cafe

Rajiv Gandhi assassination case: Key witness questions CBI-led probe

Last Updated: Sunday, September 15, 2013, 12:47

A lawyer, closely associated with the probe by the Jain Commission into the conspiracy aspect of Rajiv Gandhi`s assassination, has claimed there were lapses and shortcomings in the CBI-led investigations.

HC quashes case against Rajiv Gandhi assassination case convict Nalini

Last Updated: Wednesday, September 11, 2013, 22:26

Madras High Court quashed proceedings pending in lower court against Rajiv Gandhi assassination case convict S Nalini in connection with seizure of a mobile phone in her cell in the Vellore prison.

Commute death sentence of 3 convicts in Rajiv case: DMK to PM

Last Updated: Friday, May 3, 2013, 21:02

A group of DMK MPs on Friday met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and asked him to recommend to the President commutation of the death sentence of the three convicts in Rajiv Gandhi assassination case.

Hearing over RTI plea of Rajiv case death row convict putoff

Last Updated: Monday, April 15, 2013, 19:36

Video conferencing session of Perarivalan, death row convict in Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, with Chief Information Commissioner planned on Monday over his RTI query has been postponed.

IB hid crucial video on Rajiv Gandhi murder: Book

Last Updated: Tuesday, October 30, 2012, 18:13

Was a crucial video — shot hours before former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi was killed at Sriperumbudur on May 21, 1991 — never shared by the IB?

Ex- top LTTE commander free from Lankan custody

Last Updated: Wednesday, October 17, 2012, 18:51

58-year-old Kumaran Pathmanathan alias KP, was no longer in detention and was free to carry out work for a charity he had formed, said Lakshman Hulugalle, the head of the Defence Ministry`s media centre.