New Delhi: The Supreme Court ordered to free all six convicts - serving life imprisonment - in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case. The court applied its 18 May 2022 judgment of releasing AG Perarivalan to the remaining life convicts after noting that the criteria laid down for Perarivalan was made out even in the case of the remaining convicts.
Rajiv Gandhi assassination case: Supreme Court orders release of convicts Nalini, Ravichandran serving life sentence pic.twitter.com/qm2FLOiDoP
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The top court released S Nalini, Jaykumar, RP Ravichandran, Robert Pias, Suthendraraja and Sriharan.
They were found to have good conduct in jail and all of them had acquired various degrees during their stay in jail.