The Centre and the Tamil Nadu government will file a counter affidavit in the case within eight weeks in the assassination case of the former prime minister of India.


Giving a major relief to three convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, the Madras High Court on today stayed their hanging which was scheduled on September 9. Hearing their mercy petition the High Court gave interim relief to A.G.Perarivalan alias Arivu, V.Sriharan alias Murugan and T.Suthendraraja alias Santhan for eight weeks.The Centre and the Tamil Nadu government will file a counter affidavit in the case within eight weeks in the assassination case of the former prime minister of India. Meanwhile, Chief Minister Jayalalithaa moved the resolution in this regard and the House unanimously adopted it. The resolution also requested the President of India to reconsider the mercy petitions filed by the three convicts and to commute the death sentence to life.
Rajiv Gandhi, the then prime minister of India, was assassinated by a team of Liberation Tiger of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) terrorists on May 21, 1991 at Sriperumbudur in Tamil Nadu during the Lok Sabha election campaign.

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