Decide on proposal to free Rajiv murder convicts, SC asks centre

IANS
New Delhi
The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Centre to take a call on the Tamil Nadu government's 2014 communication proposing to grant remission of sentence to seven convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination conspiracy case.
"You take a decision. That itself will decide the matter,"said Justice Ranjan Gogoi heading the three-judge bench hearing a 2014 plea by the Centre challenging the Tamil Nadu government's February 19, 2014 decision to remit the sentences of the seven.
The bench, also comprising Justice Abhay Manohar Sapre and Justice Navin Sinha, gave the Centre three months'time to decide on it.
The court on Tuesday noted that the Centre has not yet responded to the February 19 proposal of the Tamil Nadu government and asked it to respond.