The mother of A.G. Perarivalan who is accused in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, on Monday appealed to Congress president Sonia Gandhi that she speak out against the sentence.
Perarivalan, Santhan and Murugan are on death row after their mercy petitions were rejected by the President. Referring to a letter Ms. Gandhi had written in 1999 to the former President, K.R. Narayanan, seeking pardon for the accused, Ms. Arputham Ammal said: “Sonia Gandhi should once again say that the lives of the three persons sentenced to death should be spared.”
“Perarivalan went to prison when he was 19. Today he is 40. All these years, I have been fighting to prove his innocence. We have all been penalised for no fault of ours,” she told a press conference here. Calling his incarceration “unjustified,” she maintained that her son was innocent and had “nothing to do with the assassination.”
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