Perarivalan: The Supreme Court has

The Supreme Court has invoked its extraordinary powers to do complete justice under Article 142 of the Constitution and ordered the release of A.G. Explained: The content and scope of Article 142, invoked by Supreme Court to release Perarivalan This provision of the Constitution gives the country's top court wide powers to do "complete justice" in a case. Article 142, which started out as draft article 118, was adopted by the Constituent Assembly on May 27, 1949. Perarivalan is now over 50 years old. In the 1980s, Perarivalan - who was teenager back then - was a sympathiser of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). The LTTE had given the task to assasinate Rajiv Gandhi to its intelligence operative Sivarasan, who was known as "One-Eyed Jack".