New Delhi: The Supreme Court Tuesday dismissed a central government plea seeking recall of the the verdict by which it had commuted to life the death sentence of three convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case.
A bench of Chief Justice P. Sathasivam, Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Shiva Kirti Singh rejected the centre's plea after considering it in chamber.
After considering the centre's plea seeking recall of its verdict, the bench, in a brief order said: "We have carefully gone through the review petition and the connected papers. We find no merit in the review petition and the same is accordingly dismissed."
The bench Feb 18 commuted the death sentence of three conspirators in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case to life imprisonment, citing its Jan 21 judgment.
The three convicts are V. Sriharan alias Murugan, A.G. Perarivalan alias Arivu and T. Suthendraraja alias Santhan, currently lodged in Tamil Nadu's Vellore prison. They had sought commutation of their death sentences due to the long delay in deciding their mercy petitions.
