The Supreme Court has sought the response of the Centre and CBI on a plea seeking probe into the alleged larger conspiracy behind assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. <br/><br/>The plea was filed by AG Perarivalan, one of the convicts in the case. He said, despite an order from a TADA court in Chennai, neither CBI nor its Multi-Disciplinary Monitoring Agency proceeded with the probe in a proper perspective to bring the accused to book. The plea contended that several top people were involved in the case.<br/><br/>The apex court had, in Febraury 2014, commuted the death sentence of Perarivalan to life imprisonment along with two others on the ground of 11 years delay in deciding their mercy plea by the Centre.

The Supreme Court has sought the response of the Centre and CBI on a plea seeking probe into the alleged larger conspiracy behind assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. <br/><br/>The plea was filed by AG Perarivalan, one of the convicts in the case. He said, despite an order from a TADA court in Chennai, neither CBI nor its Multi-Disciplinary Monitoring Agency proceeded with the probe in a proper perspective to bring the accused to book. The plea contended that several top people were involved in the case.<br/><br/>The apex court had, in Febraury 2014, commuted the death sentence of Perarivalan to life imprisonment along with two others on the ground of 11 years delay in deciding their mercy plea by the Centre.