The Tamil Nadu Cabinet has decided to recommend to the State Governor Banwarilal Purohit the release of all seven life convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case.
The convicts include Murugan, Santhan, A G Perarivalan, Jayakumar, Ravichandran, Robert Payas and Nalini Sriharan.
Former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated on May 21, 1991, at Sriperumbudur near Chennai by an LTTE woman suicide bomber, Dhanu, at an election rally. Fourteen others, including Dhanu herself, were also killed. The others, allegedly involved in the assassination, are behind bars.
A resolution to this effect was adopted at a meeting of the State Cabinet