The Madras High Court on Tuesday called for the trial court judgement in former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi assassination case. It wanted to know the exact provisions of law under which one of the convicts S. Nalini had been convicted since she had now urged the court to order her release without the Governor’s nod.
Chief Justice Munishwar Nath Bhandari and Justice D. Bharatha Chakravarthy directed the High Court Registry to list Nalini’s writ petition, seeking premature release, on Thursday, if the trial court judgement could be traced by then. If it would take time to trace it, the petition would get listed in the first week of June.
The petitioner’s counsel M. Radhakrishnan argued that his client ought to have been released in September 2018 when the State Cabinet made a recommendation to the Governor to release all seven convicts involved in the assassination case. However, the Governor kept the recommendation pending for long.
