The Supreme Court of India has ordered the release of six people convicted of involvement in the 1991 assassination of the country’s former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.
Previously, the court had already released another person convicted in the same case, who had already served 30 years in prison, according to The Times of India.
The leader of the Indian National Congress party, Jairam Ramesh, has described the court ruling as «inconsistent» and said that the decision to «release Gandhi’s killers is unacceptable and wrong». «It is sad that the Supreme Court has not acted well in this matter,» he said.
Gandhi was prime minister between 1984 and 1989 and was assassinated at the hands of an alleged member of the then separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in a suicide bombing. The woman detonated a bomb she was carrying after approaching him during a rally in the southeastern state of Tamil Nadu.
The Indian politician became the target of attacks and threats after sending Indian troops to Sri Lanka in 1987 during the war against separatists.
