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SC extends stay on execution in Rajiv murder

The Supreme Court today extended till further orders the stay on the execution of the four condemned prisoners in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case.

The stay was extended by a three-judge bench comprising Justices K T Thomas, D P Wadhwa and S M Quadri when a petition seeking review of the court's judgment dated May 11 this year came up for fixing a date for hearing.

The judges said that since one of them was right now busy on the Constitution bench, it would be not be possible to give a definite date.

They, however, said that the registry would give a week's notice to the counsel before fixing the next date of hearing.

The court by its May 11 judgment had confirmed the death sentence awarded by a Madras special court to Santhan, Nalini, her husband Murugan and Arivu, commuted the death sentence of three others into life imprisonment, and acquitted the remaining 19.

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