Chennai: Newly appointed Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin on Wednesday ordered 30-day extraordinary go away for Rajiv Gandhi assassination case convict AG Perarivalan.
Stalin, contemplating a petition from Arputhammal, mom of Perarivalan in search of go away on medical grounds for her son, relaxed related guidelines and ‘ordered grant of 30 day ordinary leave’, PTI reported an official launch as saying.
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Perarivalan, who’s lodged in Chennai’s Puzhal Central Prison, is serving life sentence on this case.
The Madras High Court had final yr granted him 30-day parole which was later prolonged by the Supreme Court by per week for medical check-up.
The 46-year-old Perarivalan had sought suspension of his life sentence within the case until the CBI-led Multi-Disciplinary Monitoring Agency (MDMA) probe is accomplished.
On numerous events, the Supreme Court had expressed its dissatisfaction over the pendency of pardon plea of Perarivalan for over two years with the Tamil Nadu Governor.
The prime court docket had, in 2014, commuted Perarivalan’s sentence to life imprisonment citing lengthy pendency of his mercy petition.
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Earlier this yr, the Union Ministry of Home Affairs has knowledgeable the Supreme Court that Tamil Nadu Governor has recorded that President is the competent authority to take care of pardon plea of the convict.
The former prime minister was assassinated on May 21, 1991, at Sriperumbudur close to Chennai by a lady suicide bomber Dhanu at an election rally of the Congress Party.
