The Madras High Court on Wednesday directed the Tamil Nadu government to ascertain from the Governor the status of a recommendation made by the State Cabinet on September 9, 2018, to release all seven convicts in the case of assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1991.
Chief Justice Munishwar Nath Bhandari and Justice D. Bharatha Chakravarthy asked Advocate-General R. Shunmugasundaram to obtain the information within a week. They were seized of a writ petition filed by one of the convicts, S. Nalini, to release her without waiting anymore for the Governor’s nod.
M. Radhakrishnan, counsel for the petitioner, argued that the Governor had been sitting on the recommendation for the last 42 months though such a recommendation was binding upon him and he had no choice but to either accept or return it for reconsideration.
