Ex-CBI official's disclosure of tweaked statement likely to be projected as one of the points, says CJI
Chennai:
Chief Justice of India P Sathasivam on Thursday said that a order on the petition of death row convict Perarivalan, who was involved in former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination, would be passed within a month’s time.
Talking to reporters after delivering the 156th annual convocation address of Madras University, Sathasivam refused to comment on the implications of the statement by S P Thiyagarajan , former Central Bureau of Investigation Officer involved in the investigation in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, that the the confessional statement was not verbatim and was tweaked.
Thiyagarajan in an interview to Express has said that his conscience was growing and it forced him to break the silence and disclose the truth in the fervent hope of preventing miscarriage of justic
“I cannot answer this question. This may be projected as one of the points in the court. The issue is being heard in the court, it can not expressed outside,” the Chief Justice of India said while replying to a query.
To a query on reports of complaint of sexual harassment by an intern against another recently retired judge of the apex court, Sathasivam said that representations made against former judges of this court are not entertainable by the administration of the Supreme Court
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