ನವದೆಹಲಿ,ಮೇ,18,2022(www.justkannada.in): ಮಾಜಿ ಪ್ರಧಾನಿ ರಾಜೀವ್ ಗಾಂಧಿ ಹತ್ಯೆ ಪ್ರಕರಣದ ಆರೋಪಿ ಪೆರಾರಿವಾಲನ್ ಬಿಡುಗಡೆಗೆ ಸುಪ್ರೀಂ ಕೋರ್ಟ್ ಆದೇಶಿಸಿದೆ.
ರಾಜೀವ್ ಗಾಂಧಿ ಹತ್ಯೆ ಪ್ರಕರಣದಲ್ಲಿ 31 ವರ್ಷಗಳಿಂದ ಜೈಲು ಶಿಕ್ಷೆ ಅನುಭವಿಸುತ್ತಿರುವ ಎಜಿ ಪೆರಾರಿವಾಲನ್ ನನ್ನು ಬಿಡುಗಡೆಗೆ ಸುಪ್ರೀಂ ಕೋರ್ಟ್ ಆದೇಶಿಸಿದೆ. ನ್ಯಾಯಮೂರ್ತಿಗಳಾದ ನಾಗೇಶ್ವರ ರಾವ್, ಬಿ.ಆರ್.ಬವಾಯಿ ಮತ್ತು ಎ.ಎಸ್.ಬೋಪಣ್ಣ ಸೇರಿದಂತೆ ಸುಪ್ರೀಂ ಕೋರ್ಟ್ ನ ತ್ರಿಸದಸ್ಯ ಪೀಠವು ಬುಧವಾರ ಈ ತೀರ್ಪನ್ನು ಪ್ರಕಟಿಸಿದೆ.
ಮಾಜಿ ಪ್ರಧಾನಿ ರಾಜೀವ್ ಗಾಂಧಿ ಅವರು ಮೇ 21, 1991 ರಂದು ತಮಿಳುನಾಡಿನ ಶ್ರೀಪೆರಂಬದೂರಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಚುನಾವಣಾ ರ್ಯಾಲಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಮಹಿಳಾ ಆತ್ಮಾಹುತಿ ಬಾಂಬರ್‌ನಿಂದ ಹತ್ಯೆಗೀಡಾಗಿದ್ದರು.
Key words: Supreme Court -orders -release –accused- Rajiv Gandhi -murder- case
ENGLISH SUMMARY…
SC orders to release accused in former PM Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination case
New Delhi, May 18, 2022 (www.justkannada.in): The Hon’ble Supreme Court has issued orders to release Perarivalan, one of the accused in former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination case.
A.G. Perarivalan was in jail from the last 31 years in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case. The Supreme Court has ordered to release him. The Supreme Court bench comprising three Jugdes Nageshwar Rao, B.R. Bawai and A.S. Bopanna issued the orders of Wednesday.
The former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated on May 21, 1991, at Sriperambudur in Tamil Nadu during an election rally. He was killed in a female suicide bomber attack.
Perarivalan was 19 years at that time. He is facing charges of assisting former PM Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination mastermind and LTTE leader Shivarasan in purchasing two batteries of 9 volts. These two batteries were used to assassinate Rajiv Gandhi in 1991.
In 1998, the Anti-terrorism Court had issued orders to hand Perarivalan. The Hon’ble Supreme Court had also upheld this judgement the next year. But in 2014 the apex court converted the hanging orders to life time imprisonment. As the accused has completed 30 years in jail, the apex court had granted bail in the month of March last year.
Keywords: Perarivalan/ Former PM Rajiv Gandhi assassination case/ Supreme Court/ release order
