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India top court frees ex-PM Rajiv Gandhi’s killers

The opposition Congress party has condemned the court decision as 'totally unacceptable' and 'completely erroneous' [File: Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters]

India’s top court has ordered the release of six people convicted for the assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.

Gandhi was 46 when he was killed by a female suicide bomber at an election rally in the southern state of Tamil Nadu in 1991.

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