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Nalini Sriharan, a life convict in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, was released from the jail in Vellore in Tamil Nadu today for a month to attend her daughter’ wedding, NDTV reported.

According to conditions imposed by the authorities, during this period Nalini cannot leave Vellore and is not allowed to meet politicians or speak to the media.

The Madras High Court had granted Nalini the leave earlier this month in a hearing at which she argued for herself.

Asking for leave of six months, Nalini Sriharan has made an emotional appeal and argued she had been wrongfully punished in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case.

"I could not look after my daughter. I did not fulfill my motherly responsibilities," she said, adding, "I did not fulfill my responsibilities to my father before he died. Now I've to meet my family for my daughter's wedding. I've to arrange for finances."

Nalini Sriharan was granted a day's parole last year to attend the last rites of her father, Sankara Narayanan, 92, in Chennai.

The court also exempted Nalini Sriharan from payment of charges for police security, saying she was not a woman of means. She said she had been made to pay Rs. 16,000 last year.

Before giving the order, Justice MM Sundaresh, one of two judges on the bench, explained to her that government rules only allowed her a maximum of 30 days leave.

This is the first time during the 28 years she has spent behind bars that Nalini has availed leave.

Nalini's husband, Murugan, is also serving a life sentence and is housed in the same jail.

Nalini Sriharan was initially sentenced to death for providing shelter to Rajiv Gandhi's assassin. However, after intervention by Sonia Gandhi, that sentence was commuted to life after she gave birth to her daughter, Harithra Hariharan, in jail.


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  • ET Thursday, 25 July 2019 05:12 PM

    If she was in a SL jail, our politicians wud hv haggled about it on elections and released her within 10 years. She is in jaiil for 28 years now. No Presidential or International Women's day pardons, like what was given to politician, MP, Minister Milroy Fernando's wife after she was convicted to death row. Was released in less thab 5 years by CBK .

    Ursula Bregman Thursday, 25 July 2019 05:48 PM

    I was probably the only Westerner caught up in Jaffna when the Indian Army of 100 thousand strong tough men went about killing the Tamil civilians at random as if the Tamils were not human. In this context I feel very sorry for this lady who has been in prison since 1991.


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