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Perarivalan who has been in jail for 32 years, gets bail by SC

The Supreme Court on Wednesday granted bail to AG Perarivalan, one of the seven convicts serving life sentence in the case related to the assassination of the then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1991.

“Taking into account the fact that the applicant has spent over 30 years in prison, we are of the considered view that he is entitled to be released on bail, inspite of the vehement opposition by the Centre”, a bench comprising Justice L Nageswara Rao and Justice BR Gavai noted in the order.

The bench noted that Perarivalan is on parole at present and he has been granted parole earlier thrice, Live Law reported. Though Perarivalan is currently on parole, he is neither allowed to step out of the house nor meet anyone.

In 2014, the Supreme Court had commuted the death penalty to Perarivalan and two others to life imprisonment on account of long pendency of his mercy plea.

Perarivalan had earlier argued that he had been “under the hangman’s noose for 16 years, and 29 years in solitary confinement out of the total 30 years of incarceration”. He had suffered the pain and trauma of the death row syndrome. “The pain was equally felt by the aging and fragile parents due to the uncertainty between life and death, and hope and despair,” he had submitted.

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