Rajiv Gandhi case: Top court junks plea from 2014

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed as infructuous a writ petition filed in 2014 by six persons, including two victims in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination incident, challenging the power vested in the state government under the Cr.P.C. to grant remission to seven  life convicts, for their premature release.

A three judge Bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justices Deepak Gupta and Sanjiv Khanna, after hearing counsel Sivabalamurugan and Solicitor General Tushar Mehta said, “All aspects were covered in the earlier constitution bench verdict in the case and therefore nothing survives in the case”.