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Madras HC directs Rajiv Gandhi assassination convict Murugan's niece to submit fresh application to meet him

Press Trust of India • August 31, 2017, 16:04:17 IST
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The Madras High Court directed Thenmozhi, niece of Rajiv Gandhi assassination case life convict Murugan, to submit a fresh application to prison authorities for meeting him.

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Chennai: The Madras High Court on Thursday directed Thenmozhi, niece of Rajiv Gandhi assassination case life convict Murugan, to submit a fresh application to prison authorities for meeting him after it was informed that he had ended his “fast-unto death”. A division bench comprising Justices A Selvam and N Authinathan gave the direction when a habeas corpus petition by Thenmozhi came up for hearing. Public Prosecutor (PP) Rajarathinam informed the bench that Murugan, who was observing a “fast unto death” from 18 August, had ended it on Wednesday. [caption id=“attachment_2750398” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]A file photo of madras High Court. Image credit: Wiki commons File image of Madras High Court. Wikimedia Commons[/caption] The bench had earlier sought Murugan’s medical reports which were submitted by prison authorities. As Murugan was only consuming water from the day of his fast, authorities recommended that he be shifted to Vellore Government General Hospital for treatment. The bench, which recorded the submission besides the those made by the public prosecutor, said that in view of Murugan ending his fast, the court would like to close the case. On Thenmozhi’s plea for meeting Murugan, the bench asked the public prosecutor about allowing her to meet him. The public prosecutor then submitted that if a fresh representation was made by her, prison authorities would consider and pass orders on the application as per the prison manual. Recording the submission, the bench directed Thenmozhi to make a fresh application and directed the prison authorities to pass orders within three days. The court had on Wednesday asked the Additional Public Prosecutor (APP) why permission has been refused to visitors to meet the convict, to which the APP submitted that as per the prison manual, if any inmate goes on a fast, no one is allowed to meet him and all facilities made available to him are cut. In her 24 August plea, Thenmozhi had claimed her uncle was determined to attain ‘jeeva samadhi’ (fast unto death) in the prison and sought the court’s intervention to save him. She had also sought permission to meet him. Citing various news reports about Murugan’s fast, she had said it was the duty of the prison authorities to save his life. She had said Murugan was in the prison for the last 26 years. The officials had rejected her 22 August representation to meet Murugan, she said and claimed that even his wife Nalini, a co-convict in the case, was also not allowed to meet him. Murugan, an LTTE cadre, was initially sentenced to death along with five others in the case related to assassination of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi by an LTTE suicide bomber at nearby Sriperumbudur on 21 May, 1991. The Supreme Court had in 2014 commuted his sentence and of two others to life imprisonment citing the delay in deciding their mercy plea. Nalini is also serving a life term after her death sentence was commuted by the state government.

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