New Delhi: After Supreme Court, today (November 11, Friday) announced its decision to release the six persons convicted in the assassination of former Prime Minister and Congress leader Rajiv Gandhi the Congress party has termed it as ‘Most unfortunate.’
Reacting to SC’s decision to free the remaining killers, Congress MP and General Secretary in charge of communications Jairam Ramesh said the decision is totally unacceptable and completely erroneous.
He further said, the Congress party criticises it clearly and finds it wholly untenable.
Jairam Ramesh also said it is also most unfortunate because the SC has not acted in consonance with the spirit of India on this issue.
The statement of the Congress Party comes soon after the Supreme Court ordered the release of six convicts including Nalini Sriharan and RP Ravichandran.
Nalini Sriharan and RP Ravichandran were serving life imprisonment in Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination case.
The order was passed by a bench of BR Gavai and BV Nagarathna. They took the decision by considering the good conduct of convicts in the prison.
The apex court also noted that they have been locked in jail for a very long period.
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Out of the six killers who were released today include Jeyakumar, Robert Payas and Murugan are Sri Lankan nationals.
Former Prime Minister of India, Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated on May 21, 1991, at Sriperumbudur in Tamil Nadu. He was killed by a woman suicide bomber of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) group from neighboring Sri Lanka.
