facilities in terms of food, drinking water and a bed to Nalini Sriharan
who is serving a life sentence at Vellore womens jail for her involvement
in the assassination of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi.
Vellore jail authorities withdrew the `A class facilities for Sriharan
after they had seized a mobile phone from her prison room in 2010.
That year she was transferred to Puzhal jail here on request.
Nalini sought a transfer back to Vellore jail in 2011 with President
Pratibha Patil rejecting the mercy petitions of three other convicts facing
death her husband Sriharan alias Murugan, T. Suthendraraja alias Santhan
and A.G. Perarivalan alias Arivu.
Nalini approached the court as she was not given `A class facilities at
Vellore jail. The court accepted her plea and restored the facilities.
Rajiv Gandhi, prime minister during 1984-89, was killed by a suicide bomber
at an election rally near Chennai May 21, 1991. Fourteen other people also
lost their lives in the blast.
Nalini was earlier given the death sentence. On the intervention of Rajiv
Gandhis widow and now Congress president Sonia Gandhi, the sentence was
commuted to life imprisonment.
IANS
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