Release Rajiv Gandhi assassins, demands Karunanidhi

The court said that life imprisonment would mean life in jail till end.

Gandhi was killed in May 1991. His assassins were convicted by a TADA court in January 1998 and were awarded death sentence, which was confirmed by the apex court May 11, 1999.

The three assassins - V. Sriharan alias Murugan, Arivu and T. Suthendraraja alias Santhan - sought their death sentence be commutted to life imprisonment on account of the inordinate delay of nearly 11-years in deciding their mercy petitions.