DC Edit | SC’s Rajiv convict ruling also redefines governors’ powers
The Supreme Court invoked special powers under Article 142 of the Constitution to set free Rajiv Gandhi assassination case convict A.G. Perarivalan. But by no means has his innocence been established even if his task in a big plot on foreign soil by Sri Lankan separatist militants was just to buy a couple of nine-volt batteries that may have been used in triggering the waist bomb of the suicide bomber assassin Dhanu. Perarivalan was a model prisoner who even took a master’s degree while incarcerated for 31 years after having been ensnared into the conspiracy as a teenaged LTTE sympathiser who ran small chores for the movement in Sri Lanka. It’s a different matter that each and every issue is made to await judicial intervention even while the executive is either too obstinate or finds the need to take decisions too burdensome.
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