New Delhi: Nalini Sriharan, convicted in the murder of former PM Rajiv Gandhi, has been granted one month's parole by the Tamil Nadu government. The Tamil Nadu government informed the Madras High Court in this regard on Thursday. The Tamil Nadu government has ordered a month's parole on a petition filed by Nalini Sriharan's ailing mother. Nalini has been serving a jail term for more than two decades.

The Tamil Nadu government had informed the Madras High Court in February last year that the state government had recommended to the Governor to release all the seven convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi murder case. In addition to Nalini, other convicts in the case include her husband Murugan, Suthinthira Raja alias Santhan, AG Perarivalan, Robert Pais, Jayakumar and Ravichandran. Four of them are Sriharan, Santhan, Robert Pais and Jayakumar Sri Lankan nationals. Nalini Sriharan's lawyer Radhakrishnan has said that she will be released on parole today on Friday after completing bail formalities. Now she will be able to see her ailing mother Padma. Nalini will now stay in a rented house with her mother under a tight police guard at Satuvachery in Vellore. Sister Kalyani and brother Bakianathan will also be with them. Nalini received similar parole in 2019.

The TADA court had on May 21, 1991, sentenced all the convicts to death in the former PM Rajiv Gandhi murder case. The death penalty was later commuted to life imprisonment. Former PM Rajiv Gandhi was killed by a suicide bomber of terror group LTTE during an election rally in Sriperumbudur near Chennai.

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