Ravichandran News
A bench of Justices B R Gavai and B V Nagarathna said the judgement of the top court in the case of A G Perarivalan, one of the convicts in the case, is applicable in their matter.
The official had allegedly demanded a bribe of Rs 4 lakh for each allotted tenders to the company for 'D' category airports.
A bench of justices S S Sundresh and N Sathish Kumar gave the direction to the state home secretary on a plea by Ravichandran's mother Rajeshwari.
The Supreme Court on Monday sought a report from the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) after one of the convicts alleged that the probe agency did not investigate into the `larger conspiracy` to kill late prime minister Rajiv Gandhi.The apex court has fixed August 16th as the next date for further hearing in the matter.Convict A. G. Perarivalan has alleged that the
MHA officials said that no decision has been taken yet on the proposal and consultations with the Union Law Ministry are still underway.
It is not the first time that the state government had approached the Centre seeking its views on its decision to remit the sentences of the convicts.
The entire issue was rooted on the conflicting positions taken by the central and the Tamil Nadu governments on latter's move to release Sriharan, Perarivalan and Suthendraraja after commutation of their death sentence.
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