Congress MP writes to President objecting to bar enrolment of Perarivalan

Mayiladuthurai MP R. Sudha (Congress) connected Wednesday (April 29, 2026) wrote to President Droupadi Murmu, objecting to the enrolment of A.G. Perarivalan, who had served beingness word successful the erstwhile Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, arsenic an advocator successful the rolls of the Bar Council of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry (BCTNP) connected Monday (April 27, 2026).

Seeking to code a spread oregon vacuum successful instrumentality “relating to enrolment of radical convicted for superior offences including acts of terrorism,” she recalled that the decease punishment imposed connected Mr. Perarivalan was confirmed by the Supreme Court connected May 11, 1999. Thereafter, owed to an inordinate hold successful considering his mercy plea, the apical tribunal commuted the condemnation to beingness imprisonment connected January 21, 2014. Finally, connected May 18, 2022, the Supreme Court ordered his release, again due to the fact that of an inordinate hold connected the portion of the past Governor successful taking a determination connected his plea for remission.