CALL ON MERCY TO RAJIV CASE CONVICT IN FOUR WEEKS, TN GOVERNOR TELLS SC

NEW DELHI: Tamil Nadu governor Banwarilal Purohit on Thursday told the Supreme Court that a decision on the mercy petition of one of the convicts serving a life sentence for the assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, AG Perarivalan, will be taken within four weeks.

The petition has been pending with the governor since December 30, 2015.

Perarivalan has maintained throughout that he had no knowledge of the plot to assassinate Rajiv Gandhi while supplying the battery that would go on to power the belt bomb used by the suicide bomber.