(LANKAPUVATH | COLOMBO) – The Supreme Court has ordered that six convicts in the assassination case of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, to be set at liberty forthwith. The convicts — Nalini, her husband Murugan alias Sriharan, Ravichandran, Jayakumar, Robert Pais, and Santhan — were were originally sentenced to death. Subsequently, their death penalty was commuted to life imprisonment. The Supreme Court Bench, comprising Justices B.R. Gavai and B.V. Nagarathna, ordered this while taking into…
"Supreme Court orders release of all six convicts in Rajiv Gandhi assassination case"
National News Agency of Sri Lanka