TN Government rejects plea for premature release by Nalini

Chennai:  The Tamil Nadu government on Monday rejected the plea for premature release of Nalini Sriharan, former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi's suspected assassin. Nalini has been in prison for 19 years and is now undergoing life imprisonment in the Vellore Central Jail. She had originally been sentenced to death. But that was reduced to a life sentence after Sonia Gandhi intervened and reasoned that Nalini had a baby daughter(Megha)

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On March 10,2010, a two-judge bench of the HC, comprising Justice Elipe Dharma Rao and Justice K.K. Sasidharan asked TN government to submit their report about this case on next day. The TN government on March 11 told the court that it would take the final decision on Nalini's premature release in two weeks as they needed time to study it. The decision was taken after considering the recommendations of the Prison Advisory Board(PAB) which was headed by the Vellore district collector C Rajendran.The PAB furnished several grounds for rejecting Nalini's plea including her refusal to accept/apologize her role in the assassination.