Rajiv Gandhi Assassination Case Convict

Rajiv Gandhi Case: Three men - Murugan, Robert Payas, and Jayakumar - who had been convicted for the assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi left for Colombo from Chennai on Wednesday morning.

S Nalini filed a petition in the Madras High Court seeking an order from the central and state governments to allow her husband to appear for an interview to obtain a passport to travel to the UK and live with his daughter there.

The last wish of Santhan, among the seven convicts released in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, to return to his home in Sri Lanka and take care of his aged mother never materialised.

Santhan, a convict in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case who was later released by the Supreme Court, died at a Chennai hospital this morning due to liver failure.

The Tamil Nadu government on Tuesday informed the Madras High Court that the Sri Lankan Deputy High Commission here has issued temporary travel document to Santhan, a Sri Lankan national convicted in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case.

Former Congress President Sonia Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi's widow, had supported the death sentence of four convicts being commuted. Their daughter Priyanka Gandhi Vadra had also met one of the accused and forgiven her.

A week after the Supreme Court ordered the release of six people who were convicted in the assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1991, the central government on Thursday requested the court to review its decision.

Following an 'information' that the four life convicts freed in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, now lodged in a camp here, would be resorting to a hunger strike over basic amenities, a top official visited the premises on Monday.

Nalini Sriharan, one of the six convicts in former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi's assassination, was released a day ago.

RP Ravichandran, one of the six convicts who was released on Saturday in the assassination case of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, said that the people of north India should see them as "victims instead of terrorists or killers".

Nalini Sriharan, one of the six convicts in former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi's assassination case, said that she felt sorry for the families to those who were killed in that blast.

A day after six convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case were freed by the Supreme Court after 31 years in jail, Nalini Sriharan was released on Saturday evening after a brief visit to the Vellore jail to complete formalities.

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin on Friday welcomed the Supreme Court's decision to release six convicts including Nalini Sriharan of the assassination case of the former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi.

The Congress today slammed the Supreme Court decision to free Nalini Sriharan and five other convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, saying it even "disagreed with Sonia Gandhi" on this.

Nalini Sriharan and five other convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case will be freed after 33 years in prison, following a Supreme Court order today.

Rajiv Gandhi Case: Three men - Murugan, Robert Payas, and Jayakumar - who had been convicted for the assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi left for Colombo from Chennai on Wednesday morning.

S Nalini filed a petition in the Madras High Court seeking an order from the central and state governments to allow her husband to appear for an interview to obtain a passport to travel to the UK and live with his daughter there.

The last wish of Santhan, among the seven convicts released in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, to return to his home in Sri Lanka and take care of his aged mother never materialised.

Santhan, a convict in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case who was later released by the Supreme Court, died at a Chennai hospital this morning due to liver failure.

The Tamil Nadu government on Tuesday informed the Madras High Court that the Sri Lankan Deputy High Commission here has issued temporary travel document to Santhan, a Sri Lankan national convicted in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case.

Former Congress President Sonia Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi's widow, had supported the death sentence of four convicts being commuted. Their daughter Priyanka Gandhi Vadra had also met one of the accused and forgiven her.

A week after the Supreme Court ordered the release of six people who were convicted in the assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1991, the central government on Thursday requested the court to review its decision.

Following an 'information' that the four life convicts freed in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, now lodged in a camp here, would be resorting to a hunger strike over basic amenities, a top official visited the premises on Monday.

Nalini Sriharan, one of the six convicts in former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi's assassination, was released a day ago.

RP Ravichandran, one of the six convicts who was released on Saturday in the assassination case of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, said that the people of north India should see them as "victims instead of terrorists or killers".

Nalini Sriharan, one of the six convicts in former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi's assassination case, said that she felt sorry for the families to those who were killed in that blast.

A day after six convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case were freed by the Supreme Court after 31 years in jail, Nalini Sriharan was released on Saturday evening after a brief visit to the Vellore jail to complete formalities.

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin on Friday welcomed the Supreme Court's decision to release six convicts including Nalini Sriharan of the assassination case of the former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi.

The Congress today slammed the Supreme Court decision to free Nalini Sriharan and five other convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, saying it even "disagreed with Sonia Gandhi" on this.

Nalini Sriharan and five other convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case will be freed after 33 years in prison, following a Supreme Court order today.