Nalini, one of the convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi Assassination case was released on parole to attend the funeral of her 92-year-old father who died yesterday in Tirunelveli.

The body was brought to Chennai and kept at Nalini’s brother, Ravi’s house in Chennai. Nalini, who was lodged in Vellore Central Prison, was given a 12-hour parole at the request of her mother, to attend the funeral. She was escorted out of the special cell at around 7.00 AM and brought to Chennai.

Political leaders and pro-Sri Lankan Tamil activists, including VCK leader Thol Thirumavalavan, Tamil Nationalist Movement leader Pazha Nedumaran, representatives of the MDMK party, and Naam Thamizhar Party’s Seeman, arrived to pay respect to Nalini’s father, Sankaranarayanan, a retired police inspector.

Clad in green sari, Nalini was brought at around 10.00 AM to her brother’s house in Kotturpuram, Chennai, in a police vehicle. This is the second time that she is being released on parole since her arrest in 1991. She was previously released n 2004 to attend her brother’s wedding.

After offering their condolences to her father’s death, politicians demanded that all the convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case be released.

Nalini was given the death sentence by the trial court in 1998. It was commuted to life term after Sonia Gandhi sought for clemency for the sake of Nalini’s daughter with Murugan, another convict in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case.