India, Feb. 14 -- Three convicts in the case of murder of Revolutionary Marxist Party (RMP) leader TP Chandrasekharan got over 1,000 days of parole while six others got over 500-day parole ever since they were jailed in the past 12 years, data of the state government showed.

The data, indicating the extensive parole to the convicts in the widely-followed political murder case, was revealed in the form of an answer by the state government to a question posed by Congress MLA Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan in the assembly.

Chandrasekharan, 51, who had formed the RMP after leaving the CPI(M) in 2008, was hacked to death by a gang of assailants near Orkatteri in Vadakara on the night of May 4, 2012 in what was widely seen as an attack for worki...