Tamil Nadu CM Stalin writes to President Kovind, seeks launch of all seven Rajiv case convicts

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Okay Stalin on Thursday urged President Ram Nath Kovind to simply accept the advice made by the state authorities in 2018 and remit the life sentences of the seven Rajiv Gandhi assassination case convicts and direct their quick launch.
The convicts have been present process the “agony of imprisonment” for the previous about three many years and the state has been demanding their early launch, he mentioned.
A majority of political events have been requesting remission of the rest of their sentences and their quick launch. “It is also the will of the people of Tamil Nadu,” Stalin mentioned in a letter addressed to Kovind.
The letter, dated May 19, was made accessible to media shops on Thursday.

V Sriharan alias Murugan, his spouse Nalini, Santhan, A G Perarivalan, Jayakumar, Robert Payas and P Ravichandran are the seven convicts.
The Chief Minister recalled that the Tamil Nadu authorities had on September 9, 2018 advisable to Governor Banwarilal Purohit to remit the remainder of sentences of all of the seven convicts and their early launch.
“The purported obstacle for exercise of the power of remission was the pendency of the investigation by the Multi-Disciplinary Monitoring Agency of CBI. It has been clarified by the respective stands of the Union Government and CBI before the Supreme Court that there is no connection between the remission of the sentence and investigation.”
Thereafter, the Governor determined that the President is the competent authority to determine on remission of sentences and forwarded the state authorities’s advice to Kovind’s workplace, Stalin mentioned.

“These seven individuals have already suffered untold hardship and agony up to now three many years and have paid a heavy worth.
There has already been an inordinate delay within the consideration of their pleas for remission. In the current circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic, courts are additionally recognising the necessity to decongest prisons.”
Therefore, the CM requested Kovind to “kindly accept the recommendation of the state government” and go applicable orders for remission of life sentences of all of the seven convicts and direct their quick launch.
Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated on May 21, 1991 at Sriperumbudur close to right here by a lady suicide bomber, Dhanu, at an election rally of the Congress occasion.
Major events, together with the ruling DMK, most important opposition AIADMK favour setting the Rajiv case convicts free.
Tamil Nadu Congress Committee chief Okay S Alagiri had mentioned final yr that solely the judiciary ought to determine on remission of their sentences.
If the Rajiv case case convicts have been to be let loose, a requirement would come up for the discharge of all “murder convicts” who’ve spent over 25 years in jail.
“If the court announces the release of seven Rajiv case convicts, we will accept it. However, political parties rooting for their release is unacceptable,” the TN Congress chief had mentioned.