INDIA: HIGH COURT STAYS EXECUTION OF RAJIV GANDHI'S KILLERS
The Madras High Court in southern India has stayed the executions of three men convicted of plotting the 1991 assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.
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The Madras High Court in southern India has stayed the executions of three men convicted of plotting the 1991 assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.
The men - Murugan, Santhan and Perarivalan - were to have been hanged at a jail in Tamil Nadu on 9 September but that has now been put back eight weeks.
India's president rejected a plea for mercy this month. Lawyers for the men say the time taken to decide the plea - 11 years - was unconstitutional.
The men - Murugan, Santhan and Perarivalan - were to have been hanged at a jail in Tamil Nadu on 9 September but that has now been put back eight weeks.
India's president rejected a plea for mercy this month. Lawyers for the men say the time taken to decide the plea - 11 years - was unconstitutional.
— SOURCES
- (Sources: bbc.co.uk/; global post.com; 30/08/2011)
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