Days after assuming the Chief Minister’s office, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin has touched the serious case that revolves around the will and sentiments of the people of Tamil Nadu.
The Chief Minister wrote to the Honorable President of India, Ram Nath Kovind to revoke the jail sentence of the convicts in former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi assassination case and urged him to release them.
“The majority of the political parties in Tamil Nadu have been requesting for the remission of the remainder of their sentence and for immediate release of all the seven convicts as they have been incarcerated for about three decades. It is also the will of the people of Tamil Nadu,” he said in the letter written to President.
“These seven persons have already suffered untold hardship and agony in the past three decades and have paid a heavy price. There has already been an inordinate delay in the consideration of their pleas for remission. In the present circumstances of the Covid-19 pandemic, courts are also recognising the need to decongest prisons,” he added.
Nalini Sriharan, one of the seven convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case’s death sentence was changed to life imprisonment and the death sentence was of three other convicts was also changed to life from death sentence, Staling recalled in his letter.
On Wednesday, Stalin had granted a month’s ordinary leave for Perarivalan on medical grounds after considering an appeal from his mother Arputham Ammal that since Covid-19 is spreading in prisons, he was at a higher risk due to his health condition.
One month ordinary leave was granted for Perarivalan, one of the accused in the Rajiv Gandhi case was granted on medical grounds by the Chief Minister after the accused mother requested the CM to look into her appeal.
