Death row convict Perarivalan, sentenced in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, has topped among the 45 prisoners from various jails in the state who took the plus-two examinations this year.

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The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that it will hear the petitions of three convicts, who are challenging the death sentence given to them for their role in the 1991 assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.

Perarivalan and Sriharan (alias) Murugan, death convicts in Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, will appear for Plus-2 public examinations as private candidates.

The two high risk prisoners, who have be

Nineteen-year-old Harithra, daughter of death row convict Murugan, has written an emotional letter to Congress president Sonia Gandhi appealing for clemency for her father in the Rajiv Gandhi assassin

Some may call it a political U-turn, but it was a masterstroke by astute chief minister J. Jayalalithaa, whose image reached an all-time high among the Tamil diaspora on Tuesday by ‘dramatically’ seek

Perarivalan, Santhan and Murugan may not be hanged on September 9 as announced.

Prison authorities are unlikely to carry out the executions when the convict’s review petitions are pending before the

Perarivalan, Santhan and Murugan will be hanged on September 9 in execution of the death sentence in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, according to officials at the Vellore central prison, where th

The state government on Thursday conveyed President Pratibha Patil’s decision rejecting the mercy plea of the three convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case to the superintendent of Vellore pri