"If J&K assembly had passed a resolution similar to the Tamil Nadu one for Afzal Guru, would the reaction have been as muted? I think not," Chief Minister Omar Abdullah asked on Wednesday.

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The Madras High Court on Tuesday stayed for eight weeks the hanging of the three convicts sentenced to death in the assassination of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi.

The Madras high court today stayed for eight weeks the execution of three Rajiv Gandhi assassination case convicts.

The hanging of the three men sentenced to death for conspiring to assassinate former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi was stayed for eight weeks by the Madras High Court on Tuesday, coinciding with the Tam

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

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa on Monday said she does not have the power to commute the death sentence of the three convicts in former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's assassination case.

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The three men on death row for their involvement in the assassination of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi on Monday moved the Madras High Court to stay their September 9 hanging, even as the DMK and

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

Rajiv Gandhi assassins Murugan, Santhan and Perarivalan, facing the death row, on Friday appealed to Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa to intervene in the matter even as their hanging may take