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Rajiv gandhi assassination

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Manvendra Kshatriya Rajput
Manvendra Kshatriya Rajput

The document discusses the commutation of the death sentences of individuals involved in the 1991 assassination of former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. The assassins were associated with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a Sri Lankan separatist group, who killed Gandhi in retaliation for India's involvement in the Sri Lankan civil war. After 11 years of delay in deciding their mercy plea, the death sentences of the assassins were commuted to life imprisonment due to issues with the rule of law.

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Death sentence commuted to life imprisonment on the ground of 11 years delay in deciding their mercy plea by –manvendra singh
Date of disaster-21 May 1991 (aged 46) location-Sriperumbudur, Tamil Nadu RAJIV GANDHI ASSASSINORS
Rajiv gandhi assassination
 Pardons and remissions in Rajiv Gandhi assassination case .... the chinks in the Rule of Law and its vulnerability to activism and sectarianism.
 Sri Lanka separatists  Rajiv, the assassin and 14 others were killed on the spot. The assassination was blamed on the Lankan Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a militant separatist Sri Lankan group.  At the time, India had just ended its involvement through the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) in the Sri Lankan Civil War.
 Officers have sought more information from Malaysia and Sri Lanka after questioning KP. MDMA officials said KP now runs the North East Rehabilitation and Development Organisation, which works for Tamils in Sri Lanka.
 In the aftermath of the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi in Tamil Nadu in May 1991 there were massive arrests of Tamils. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a Sri Lanka-based group fighting for an independent Tamil homeland in Sri Lanka, has been implicated in the assassination of the former Indian prime minister .

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Rajiv gandhi assassination

  • 1. Death sentence commuted to life imprisonment on the ground of 11 years delay in deciding their mercy plea by –manvendra singh
  • 2. Date of disaster-21 May 1991 (aged 46) location-Sriperumbudur, Tamil Nadu RAJIV GANDHI ASSASSINORS
  • 4.  Pardons and remissions in Rajiv Gandhi assassination case .... the chinks in the Rule of Law and its vulnerability to activism and sectarianism.
  • 5.  Sri Lanka separatists  Rajiv, the assassin and 14 others were killed on the spot. The assassination was blamed on the Lankan Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a militant separatist Sri Lankan group.  At the time, India had just ended its involvement through the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) in the Sri Lankan Civil War.
  • 6.  Officers have sought more information from Malaysia and Sri Lanka after questioning KP. MDMA officials said KP now runs the North East Rehabilitation and Development Organisation, which works for Tamils in Sri Lanka.
  • 7.  In the aftermath of the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi in Tamil Nadu in May 1991 there were massive arrests of Tamils. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a Sri Lanka-based group fighting for an independent Tamil homeland in Sri Lanka, has been implicated in the assassination of the former Indian prime minister .