Nalini might go ‘absconding’ if granted parole, State tells Madras HC

The Govt. of Tamil Nadu has filed a reply petition with the High Court of Chennai opposing Rajiv-accused Nalini’s petition seeking parole.

Nalini is among the seven main accused who have been arrested and kept in prison for 26 long years in the case relating to the 1991 assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi at Sriperumbudur off Chennai when he had arrived to address an election meeting. As reported earlier, the life-sentences of all the accused have been gradually reduced to life sentences.

Nalini, who has kept in the Vellore Women’s Prison, had filed a petition with the High Court of Madras requesting for parole for a period of six months to take care of her London-based daughter’s impending marriage. When the case came up for hearing, the Prisons Department of the State filed a reply petition to counter Nalini’s plea.

It said that Nalini’s crime was international in nature. It also added that there was a chance of Nalini getting absconded if she was granted parole and said that as such, it wasn’t in favour of granting parole to her. It is expected that the Court might pronounce its verdict in the case in a day or two.