Rajiv Gandhi assassination case: The Madras Excessive Court docket on Tuesday refused to put aside the legal proceedings pending in opposition to Murugan, one of many convicts within the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, earlier than a decrease courtroom in Vellore in Tamil Nadu.
Justice N Sathish Kumar, who rejected the plea, directed the Vellore courtroom to eliminate the case expeditiously. The choose was disposing of a legal authentic petition from Murugan.
The cost in opposition to Murugan was that he protested in opposition to and abused the jail authorities after they inspected his cell in 2020. A case was registered in opposition to him and the identical was pending earlier than a decrease courtroom in Vellore.
Murugan most popular the petition to quash the proceedings on the bottom that no FIR had been filed and there was no progress within the case. Nevertheless, the federal government advocate advised the choose the FIR was registered.
The choose recorded this and disposed of the petition after directing the Vellore courtroom to finish the trial as shortly as attainable. Murugan is one among the many seven individuals convicted within the assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi at Sriperumbudur close to right here in Could 1991. The others are Santhan, A G Perarivalan, Robert Payas, Jayakumar, Ravichandran and Nalini.
Perarivalan was launched by the Supreme Court docket in Could this yr, invoking its extraordinary energy underneath Article 142 of the Structure.
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