Rajiv Gandhi Assassination

A security expert said that Israel had shared with India certain transcripts about the possible threat to the life of late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi that went missing after the assassination of the top Congress leader in 1991.

Rajiv Gandhi Case: Three men - Murugan, Robert Payas, and Jayakumar - who had been convicted for the assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi left for Colombo from Chennai on Wednesday morning.

S Nalini filed a petition in the Madras High Court seeking an order from the central and state governments to allow her husband to appear for an interview to obtain a passport to travel to the UK and live with his daughter there.

The last wish of Santhan, among the seven convicts released in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, to return to his home in Sri Lanka and take care of his aged mother never materialised.

Santhan, a convict in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case who was later released by the Supreme Court, died at a Chennai hospital this morning due to liver failure.

The Tamil Nadu government on Tuesday informed the Madras High Court that the Sri Lankan Deputy High Commission here has issued temporary travel document to Santhan, a Sri Lankan national convicted in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case.

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Monday said her grandmother Indira Gandhi and father Rajiv Gandhi instilled patriotism in her in such a way that even the assassinations of the two former prime ministers could not shake her faith in the country.

Uttarakhand minister Ganesh Joshi on Tuesday said martyrdom is not the monopoly of the Gandhi family and the assassinations of Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi were "accidents".

Madhya Pradesh Home Minister Narottam Mishra today refused to call the assassinations of two former Prime Ministers Indira Gandhi and her son Rajiv Gandhi as sacrifices made for the nation.

Former Congress President Sonia Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi's widow, had supported the death sentence of four convicts being commuted. Their daughter Priyanka Gandhi Vadra had also met one of the accused and forgiven her.

A week after the Supreme Court ordered the release of six people who were convicted in the assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1991, the central government on Thursday requested the court to review its decision.

Self-styled godman Shraddhananda, who is serving life sentence for the murder of his wife Shakereh Namazi, has moved the Supreme Court seeking released from prison like the convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case.

Following an 'information' that the four life convicts freed in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, now lodged in a camp here, would be resorting to a hunger strike over basic amenities, a top official visited the premises on Monday.

Nalini Sriharan, one of the six convicts in former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi's assassination, was released a day ago.

RP Ravichandran, one of the six convicts who was released on Saturday in the assassination case of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, said that the people of north India should see them as "victims instead of terrorists or killers".

A security expert said that Israel had shared with India certain transcripts about the possible threat to the life of late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi that went missing after the assassination of the top Congress leader in 1991.

Rajiv Gandhi Case: Three men - Murugan, Robert Payas, and Jayakumar - who had been convicted for the assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi left for Colombo from Chennai on Wednesday morning.

S Nalini filed a petition in the Madras High Court seeking an order from the central and state governments to allow her husband to appear for an interview to obtain a passport to travel to the UK and live with his daughter there.

The last wish of Santhan, among the seven convicts released in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, to return to his home in Sri Lanka and take care of his aged mother never materialised.

Santhan, a convict in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case who was later released by the Supreme Court, died at a Chennai hospital this morning due to liver failure.

The Tamil Nadu government on Tuesday informed the Madras High Court that the Sri Lankan Deputy High Commission here has issued temporary travel document to Santhan, a Sri Lankan national convicted in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case.

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Monday said her grandmother Indira Gandhi and father Rajiv Gandhi instilled patriotism in her in such a way that even the assassinations of the two former prime ministers could not shake her faith in the country.

Uttarakhand minister Ganesh Joshi on Tuesday said martyrdom is not the monopoly of the Gandhi family and the assassinations of Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi were "accidents".

Madhya Pradesh Home Minister Narottam Mishra today refused to call the assassinations of two former Prime Ministers Indira Gandhi and her son Rajiv Gandhi as sacrifices made for the nation.

Former Congress President Sonia Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi's widow, had supported the death sentence of four convicts being commuted. Their daughter Priyanka Gandhi Vadra had also met one of the accused and forgiven her.

A week after the Supreme Court ordered the release of six people who were convicted in the assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1991, the central government on Thursday requested the court to review its decision.

Self-styled godman Shraddhananda, who is serving life sentence for the murder of his wife Shakereh Namazi, has moved the Supreme Court seeking released from prison like the convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case.

Following an 'information' that the four life convicts freed in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, now lodged in a camp here, would be resorting to a hunger strike over basic amenities, a top official visited the premises on Monday.

Nalini Sriharan, one of the six convicts in former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi's assassination, was released a day ago.

RP Ravichandran, one of the six convicts who was released on Saturday in the assassination case of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, said that the people of north India should see them as "victims instead of terrorists or killers".