Rajiv Gandhi death anniversary: Probe incomplete 27 yrs after assassination

Rajiv Gandhi's assassination was perhaps the first case of suicide bombing globally, which had claimed the life of a high-profile leader

As the nation on Monday paid tributes to Rajiv Gandhi on his death anniversary, the investigation in the assassination of the former Prime Minister is still on, 27 years after his ghastly killing.

The status of ongoing investigation by the CBI-led Multi Disciplinary Monitoring Agency (MDMA), probing the larger conspiracy aspect behind the assassination, was shared with the Supreme Court, which had in March asked the Centre to place before it the steps that were required to be taken to bring it to an end as "expeditiously as possible".

The MDMA had informed a bench headed by Justice Ranjan Gogoi