India appeal against Rajiv Gandhi plotters

PTI, New Delhi :
After having secured a stay on release of three convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, the Centre on Monday moved the apex court to prevent implementation of Tamil Nadu government’s decision to set free four other convicts serving life imprisonment in the case.
A bench headed by Chief Justice P Sathasivam agreed to hear the Centre’s plea on February 27.
Additional Solicitor General Siddharth Luthra told the bench that the “substantial” petition containing names of all seven convicts have been filed yesterday and the case be heard on an urgent basis.
The apex court had on February 20 stayed the release of three convicts-Murugan, Santhan and Arivu-whose death sentence was commuted to life term by it on February 18 in the case, saying there had been procedural lapses on the part of the state government on the decision to release them.