Tamil Nadu will counter Centre's plea in SC against release of 4 Rajiv assassins: Jayalalithaa
AIADMK general secretary and Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa on Monday announced the names of party candidates for the 39 Lok Sabha constituencies in Tamil Nadu and the lone constituency in Puducherry.
Julie Mariappan,TNN | Feb 24, 2014
CHENNAI: AIADMK general secretary andTamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa on Monday said the state government would counter the Centre's plea in the Supreme Courtthat challenged the move to release four convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case.
"We will counter it in the court," she told reporters when she visited the party headquarters on the occasion of her 66thbirthday.
The UPA government has been vocal against Tamil Nadu government's move to release four convicts -- Nalini Sriharan, Robert Pyas, Jayakumar and Ravichandran.
Jayalalithaa said she was aware that the Centrewas moving the apex court with a petition. "They have already written to us that they are going to file a petition," she said.
A three-judge bench led by Chief Justice of India P Sadasivam last week commuted the death sentence of three convicts, Perarivalan, Santhan and Perarivalan, on the ground that their mercy petitions had been delayed for 11 years. The bench allowed the Tamil Nadu government to exercise its remission powers under Section 432 of the CrPC to release the convicts.
Jayalalithaa said her government would do all necessary steps to get the convicts released. "But all that cannot be discussed in a conference with the media. All what we want to say will be said in the court through our counsel," she said.
AIADMK general secretary and Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa on Monday announced the names of party candidates for the 39 Lok Sabha constituencies in Tamil Nadu and the lone constituency in Puducherry.
Julie Mariappan,TNN | Feb 24, 2014CHENNAI: AIADMK general secretary andTamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa on Monday said the state government would counter the Centre's plea in the Supreme Courtthat challenged the move to release four convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case.
"We will counter it in the court," she told reporters when she visited the party headquarters on the occasion of her 66thbirthday.
The UPA government has been vocal against Tamil Nadu government's move to release four convicts -- Nalini Sriharan, Robert Pyas, Jayakumar and Ravichandran.
Jayalalithaa said she was aware that the Centrewas moving the apex court with a petition. "They have already written to us that they are going to file a petition," she said.
A three-judge bench led by Chief Justice of India P Sadasivam last week commuted the death sentence of three convicts, Perarivalan, Santhan and Perarivalan, on the ground that their mercy petitions had been delayed for 11 years. The bench allowed the Tamil Nadu government to exercise its remission powers under Section 432 of the CrPC to release the convicts.
Jayalalithaa said her government would do all necessary steps to get the convicts released. "But all that cannot be discussed in a conference with the media. All what we want to say will be said in the court through our counsel," she said.
