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Madras HC allows Rajiv Gandhi assassination convict Nalini to personally appear on 5 July to argue on plea for leave

Press Trust of India • June 25, 2019, 14:53:51 IST
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The Madras HC granted permission to Nalini Sriharan, a life convict in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, to appear in person on 5 July and argue on her plea for six months leave

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Madras HC allows Rajiv Gandhi assassination convict Nalini to personally appear on 5 July to argue on plea for leave

Chennai:  The Madras High Court on Tuesday granted permission to Nalini Sriharan, a life convict in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, to appear in person on 5 July and argue on her plea for six months ordinary leave to make arrangements for her daughter’s wedding. A division bench of Justice M M Sundaresh and Justice M Nirmal Kumar gave her permission to appear in person on 5 July at 2.15 pm to argue her case. Nalini, who has been in prison for over 27 years, wanted the court to direct the Superintendent of Police, Special Prison for Women in Vellore, to produce her before the court so that she could argue her case for leave as party-in-person. [caption id=“attachment_2855136” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] ![File photo of Nalini Hariharan. PTI](https://images.firstpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Nalini_RajivGandhi_Assassination_PTI.jpg) File photo of Nalini Sriharan, life convict in Rajiv Gandhi assassination case. PTI[/caption] The court had on 11 June observed that the right of Nalini to appear in person to argue on her plea cannot be denied. According to Nalini, a life convict is entitled to one-month leave once in two years and since she had never availed such ordinary leave for more than 27 years, she made a representation to prison authorities on 25 February seeking a six-month leave to make arrangement for her daughter’s marriage. Subsequently, Nalini’s mother also made a similar representation on 22 March. As the authorities failed to consider her representation, she moved the high court. Nalini was initially sentenced to death for her involvement in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case. However, her death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment by the Tamil Nadu government on 24 April, 2000. She claimed that after commutation of her death sentence, around 3,700 life convicts, who had served 10 years of imprisonment and less, were released by the Tamil Nadu government. “My request to the state for premature release under the 1994 Scheme of Premature Release of Life Convicts was cleared by the Council of Ministers and on 9 September, 2018, the Council advised the governor to release me and other six life convicts in the case. But it has been over six months and the decision of the state is still yet to be implemented,” she had submitted. The AIADMK government had adopted a resolution recommending Governor Banwarilal Purohit to release seven convicts — Murugan, Santhan, Perarivalan, Jayakumar, Ravichandran, Robert Payas and Nalini — serving life terms. Chief Minister K Palaniswami had said his government was committed to the release of the convicts and expressed hope the governor would act on the Cabinet recommendation for setting them free. His statement came amid renewed calls, both from the opposition and Tamil groups, for the release of the convicts, after the Supreme Court disposed of a plea of the relatives of those killed along with Rajiv Gandhi opposing their release. Former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated by a LTTE suicide bomber during an election rally at Sriperumpudur near Chennai on 21 May, 1991.

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