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Nalini Sriharan goes on fast-unto-death | Nalini Sriharan, who has been imprisoned for her role in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, has gone on an indefinite hunger strike, demanding her release from the
Central Jail at Vellore in Tamil Nadu. This was disclosed by V Elango, her advocate at
Vellore on Monday. Nalini had filed a revised petition before the Madras High Court
seeking her premature release. The court had ordered the government to constitute a new
advisory committee to consider her release. However, as on date, the committee
has not yet been formed and in turn Nalini decided to go on an indefinite hunger
strike. She had also sought release saying that she had spent 18 years more than
the mandatory maximum 14 years in jail. Elango said that if the government does
not listen to her plea, then her hunger strike may prove fatal. "If the government
wants to consider her request, then the government has to necessarily constitute
a committee immediately and place the matter before it. Unless the committee is
constituted, she will continue her hunger strike. Then her health condition would
be deteriorated," said Elango. Nalini Murugan alias Sriharan had accompanied the
suicide bomber squad to the election rally where Rajiv Gandhi was killed in May
1991. Three other convicts sentenced to death in the same case had appealed for
release on the ground that they had waited for years for the hangman - a condition
worse than capital punishment. Further, they said they had also completed the
life imprisonment period. Nalini, her husband and former Tamil Tiger guerrilla
Murugan and two other rebels were sentenced to death for their role in the killing
of Gandhi. The Madras High Court had upheld Nalini's plea for clemency on a technicality
ground and on the basis of an earlier ruling of the Supreme Court, which said
that both the parents of a child should not be put to death. She bore a child
after being arrested and while facing the trial. Her death penalty was commuted
to life sentence. |
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