Former IPS officer Amod Kumar Kanth, who was part of the Special Investigation Team (SIT) that probed the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, has said that it was "perhaps the most critical and the most difficult case to investigate" and perhaps the most talked about case in India.
Jagtar Singh Hawara, convicted in the Beant Singh assassination case, has filed a plea in the Supreme Court seeking a transfer from Delhi's Tihar Jail to a prison in Punjab.
Ravichandran, a former convict in the assassination case of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, has embarked on a new chapter in his life after spending 32 years in prison and being released prematurely. He has opened a publication and bookshop in Rajakambeeram, near Madurai in Tamil Nadu.
Santhan, one of the seven released convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, passed away at Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital in Chennai, said hospital officials on Wednesday.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday chargesheeted 13 persons in the Villianur (Puducherry) bomb blast case involving the assassination of a political functionary in a brutal attack.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday conducted raids at four locations in Puducherry and Tamil Nadu in connection with the Villianur bomb blast and assassination attack in March this year.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to grant relief to Balwant Singh Rajoana, awarded the death sentence for the assassination of the then Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh in 1995, and asked the Centre to take a call at an appropriate time on his mercy petition.
Congress MP K C Venugopal on Thursday termed the Central government's decision to file a review petition in the Supreme Court against the November 11 order allowing the release of six convicts in the former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi assassination case as "belated wisdom dawning".
On November 11, the Supreme Court ordered the release of six convicts including Nalini Sriharan and RP Ravichandran, who were serving life imprisonment in connection with the assassination in the case.