The State government on Thursday informed the Madras High Court that the Governor had forwarded to the President the entire recommendation made by the State Cabinet on September 9, 2018 to release all seven convicts involved in the assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1991.
Appearing before Chief Justice Munishwar Nath Bhandari and Justice D. Bharatha Chakravarthy, Advocate General R. Shunmugasundaram said the government had ascertained from the Governor’s office that the entire file related to the Cabinet recommendation had been referred to the President.
The court had on April 2 directed the government to find out whether the Governor had referred the issue of premature release of all seven convicts to the President or whether the plea for premature release by one of the convicts, A.G. Perarivalan, alone had been referred to the President.
