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Rajiv Gandhi case
Rajiv Gandhi case, CM Jayalalithaa, Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, P Sathasivam. A bench headed by Chief Justice P Sathasivam agreed to hear the Centre's plea on Feb 27.
SC moved for stay on release of 4 convicts
- Centre's move came after SC said it can file a fresh petition regarding other four prisoners
- TN CM Jayalalithaa on Monday asserted that her government will face it legally  
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 Feb 27. Additional Solicitor General Siddharth Luthra told the bench that the "substantial" petition containing names of all seven convicts have been filed 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. The Centre's move came after the apex court had said it could file a fresh petition regarding the other four prisoners whose sentence has also been remitted by the Tamil Nadu government. It has sought stay on the release of convicts Nalini, Robert Pious, Jayakumar and Ravichandran. Stung by the Centre's move to stall the release of convicts, TN CM Jayalalithaa on Monday asserted that her government would face it legally. "We are aware of that. The Centre has already written to us. We will counter it in court," she said. Meanwhile, PM Manmohan Singh and Narendra Modi were among the leaders who greeted Jayalalithaa on her 66th birthday on Monday.
