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HC gives 2 weeks to TN
govt to decide on Nalini's plea
Thursday, March 11, 2010 Chennai: The Madras High Court today asked the Tamil Nadu government to take a decision within two weeks on a plea for premature release by Nalini, serving life term in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case. "Positively two weeks," a Division Bench said when Advocate General P S Raman sought two weeks' time to furnish the government's decision on the report of the Prison Advisory Board (PAB) on the pleas of 44-year-old Nalini and two other convicts. Raman told the bench comprising justices Elipe Dharma Rao and K K Sasidharan that the PAB's report was being examined by the government. "It is advisory in nature and not binding on government. It is being studied by the highest level of the government," Raman said after handing over a copy of the report in a sealed cover to the bench, as directed by it yesterday. The Bench is hearing a petition filed by Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy challenging a September 2008 order by a single judge directing that the state government constitute an advisory board to consider the release of Nalini, who is in prison for the last 19 years. courtesy |
