Madras High Court on Tuesday posted to March 27 petitions by three death row convicts in the 1991 Rajiv Gandhi assassination case seeking to set aside the August 12 last order by the President rejecting their mercy pleas and to commute their sentences to life imprisonment.
Santhan, Murugan and Perarivalan sought the relief on the ground of 'undue delay' in disposal of their clemency petitions.
When the petitions came up before a specially constituted Bench comprising Justice C Nagappan and N Satyanarayanan, Additional Solicitor General M Ravindran said a writ petition, challenging the delay in disposal of a mercy plea by Devender Pal Singh Bullar was pending in the Supreme Court and posted for hearing on February 22.
MDMK Chief and advocate Vaiko, representing one of the convicts, said a petition filed in the apex Court seeking transfer of the petitions by the convicts from the Madras High Court to another High Court was also posted for February 22.
The high court then posted the petitions for further hearing on March 27.
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