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SC snubs Govt; can’t hang Rajiv killers
Supreme Court Snubs Government; Can’t Hang Rajiv Killers. The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to review its verdict commuting death sentence of three convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case to life imprisonment and dismissed the Centre\'s review petition.
- Apex court dismisses review petition on Rajiv killers
- We find no merit in the review petition, says the Apex court
- Merits of the case were not considered, Centre said in its petition
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to review its verdict commuting death sentence of three convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case to life imprisonment and dismissed the Centre's review petition.
"We have carefully gone through the review petition and the connected papers. We find no merit in the review petition and the same is accordingly dismissed," a bench of Chief Justice P Sathasivam and justices Ranjan Gogoi and S K Singh said.
The Centre had contended in its petition that the three-judge bench did not consider the merits of the case and also ventured into the domain of government by commuting the death sentence in the case.
It had further contended the February 18 judgement was passed without jurisdiction by the three-judge bench instead of by a larger bench of five judges as the case involved substantial interpretation of law and provisions of the Constitution.
The apex court had on February 18 commuted the death sentence of Santhan, Murugan and Perarivalan to imprisonment for life on the ground of delay in deciding their mercy plea by the Centre.
