Tamil Nadu Government submits prison board report on Nalini to High Court
Chennai:The Tamil Nadu Government on Thursday submitted the Prison Advisory Board report on the plea for premature release of
former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi's assassin Nalini to the Madras High Court.
The Government submitted the report in a sealed cover. Nalini, who is undergoing
life imprisonment, is lodged at the Vellore Central Jail. On Wednesday, the two
Judge Bench comprising Justice Elipe Dharma Rao and Justice K.K. Sasidharan had
asked the State Government to submit the report on Thursday. The Tamil Nadu
Government
advocate G.Desingu claimed that the Government had just received the report and
sought time to study it. Nalini's original death sentence was commuted to life
in prison after Sonia Gandhi intervened and asked for the reprieve for Nalini
after the assassin had a baby daughter. In September 2009, Nalini went on a hunger
strike to demand that she be set free. In her appeal to the Madras High Court,
she said, "I would like to settle down peacefully... I am already 43. Due to my
health condition after 18 years in jail, I cannot expect to live long.''
