The Supreme Court recently dismissed the plea of convict A G Perarivalan seeking recall of its May 1999 judgement thereby upholding his conviction in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case.
The CBI had previously sought dismissal of Perarivalan's plea claiming it was devoid of any merits. In an affidavit filed in the apex court, CBI's Multi Disciplinary Monitoring Agency (MDMA), probing the larger conspiracy aspect behind Rajiv Gandhi's assassination said that the role of convict Perarivalan in the conspiracy resulting in the killing of the former prime minister and others have already been upheld by the top court.
The Supreme Court has asked the MDMA to submit its status report in four weeks. The agency had said that the application seeking recall of the May 11, 1999 top court judgement was not maintainable since it seeks to reopen the whole matter on merits which cannot be permissible.
Former PM Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated on the night of May 21, 1991 at Sriperumbudur in Tamil Nadu by a woman suicide bomber, identified as Dhanu, at a poll rally during which fourteen others, including Dhanu, were killed as well.
