President Rejects Mercy to Rajiv Gandhi's Assassins

New Delhi: President Pratibha Patil has rejected the clemency petitions of three killers of Rajiv Gandhi whose death sentences were confirmed by the Supreme Court in 2000. The apex court had sentenced members of the banned Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam (LTTE) Murugan, Santhan, Perarivalan and Nalini to death in 1999 for the assassination of the former Prime Minister in Sriperumbudur on May 21, 1991. A Rasthrapati Bhavan spokesperson said the clemency petitions of all three accused were turned down by the President last week.