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Rajiv Gandhi murder: India court suspends plotters' release | |
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India's Supreme Court has put on hold the release of three of the seven people convicted of involvement in the murder of former PM Rajiv Gandhi. | |
The chief minister of Tamil Nadu state, where the plotters are held, ordered the release of all seven on Wednesday. | |
But India's central government promptly mounted a legal challenge against that order. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said it was "not legally tenable". | |
The six men and a woman were members of Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebel group. | |
Earlier reports had wrongly suggested the court was staying the release of all seven. |