Late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi killer Nalini allegedly threatens to end life

Vellore: Late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi killer Nalini Shriharan, has attempted suicide in prison on Monday. Nalini has been lodged in prison for the past 29 years. Nalini who is lodged at the Vellore women’s prison and has been in jail for last 29 years. She has now allegedly attempted suicide, according to her lawyer Pugalenthi.

Pugalenthi in an exclusive conversation with one national daily said that this is the first time in the last 29 years that Nalini Sriharan has tried to take such an extreme step.

Elaborating on the incident, Pugalenthi said that there was allegedly a quarrel between Nalini and another life convict. The other inmate escalated the issue to the jailer and following that Nalini attempted suicide, said the lawyer. Pugalenthi insisted that Nalini has never done anything of this sort earlier and hence “we want to know the real reason”.

Pugalenthi further said that Nalini’s husband Murugan, who is also in prison for Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination, through a prison call to the lawyer has requested that Nalini be shifted from the Vellore prison to the Puzhal prison. The lawyer added that a legal request for the same will be made soon.

Seven people, including Nalini and her husband, were convicted by a special TADA court for their role in the assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi on May 21, 1991 by an LTTE suicide bomber during an election rally at nearby Sriperumbudur.

They were sentenced to death, but later it was commuted to life imprisonment.