A G Perarivalan bail: SC grants bail to convict A G Perarivalan in Rajiv Gandhi assassination case

The Supreme Court docket on Wednesday granted bail to A G Perarivalan, serving life sentence within the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case. A bench comprising Justices L Nageswara Rao and B R Gavai took notice of the submission that the convict has been in jail for over 30 years and his conduct contained in the jail and throughout the interval of parole has been passable.

The highest court docket was listening to the plea of 47-year-old Perarivalan in search of suspension of his life sentence within the case until the MDMA probe is accomplished.

Gandhi was assassinated on the evening of Might 21, 1991 at Sriperumbudur in Tamil Nadu by a lady suicide bomber, recognized as Dhanu, at a ballot rally.

Fourteen others, together with Dhanu herself, had been additionally killed. Gandhi’s assassination was in all probability the primary case within the nation of suicide bombing which had claimed the lifetime of a high-profile chief.

In its Might 1999 order, the highest court docket had upheld the dying sentence of 4 convicts — Perarivalan, Murugan, Santham and Nalini.

On February 18, 2014, the highest court docket had commuted the dying sentence of Perarivalan to life imprisonment, together with that of two different prisoners — Santhan and Murugan — on the grounds of an 11-year delay in deciding their mercy pleas by the Centre.