Tamil Nadu Government has passed a Resolution to day in the State Assembly asking the Central Government to free the convicted killers Santhan, Perarivalan,Murugan and Nalini following he Supreme Courts canceling the Death penalty awarded to them.
Crux of the reasoning by the Supreme court is the inordinate delay by the President on the Mercy petition submitted to him by the accused.
The Presidents have slept deliberately fearing electoral repercussion to the ruling Party.
The wanton delay/indifference is about to set the convicts free.
There is also an orchestrated campaign casting aspersion on the nature of evidence against the Convicted.
All these issues have resulted in making a mockery of Judgment awarded.
So if one, who is condemned by Hanging, wants to become free,he needs to file a Mercy Petition, take care of the Powers that be and one will get freed.
In the present case the worst point is that this issue has triggered a crisis of sorts between the Center and the State. with Tamil Nadu declaring that The State Government will unilaterally set the convicts free, if the Center does not release them with in three days.
J.Jayalalithaa quoted section 432 of State’s powers on this issue!
With elections arounfd the corner Justice is a Casualty!
Story:
The Tamil Nadu government has decided to release seven people convicted in the assassination of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, including Nalini Sriharan, in a politically loaded move that is likely to set off a battle for credit ahead of the national election, due by May.
Chief Minister Jayalalithaa’s cabinet met this morning and decided to free the convicts a day after the Supreme Court left it to the state to grant them remission. The state government, however, has to consider the Centre’s views.
The convicts have been in jail for 23 years.
Nalini Sriharan, the wife of convict Murugan, was granted mercy in 2000 on the intervention of Rajiv Gandhi’s widow, Congress president Sonia Gandhi.
The top court had yesterday spared Murugan, Santhan and Perarivalan from execution, citing the 11-year delay in a decision on their mercy plea. The court rejected the government’s view that the convicts did not deserve mercy as they had shown no remorse and there was “no agony, torture or dehumanizing effect due to the delay.”
The largely pro-Lankan Tamil sentiment in the state gave a political twist to the assassination case, which has been inextricably linked to Tamil Nadu’s electoral politics over the years. All parties have joined calls for the convicts’ release; even Congress politicians from the state have not opposed it.
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