Nalini seeks release as per state govt’s recommendation

The division bench comprising Justice Subbaiyah and Justice Krishnan Ramaswamy before whom the plea moved by Nalini came up on Thursday posted the case to April 27 after directing the government to file a counter.

Nalini had submitted that “The Tamil Nadu government has passed resolutions in the Tamil Nadu assembly for releasing us. Also, the cabinet passed a resolution in September which was sent to TN Governor Banwarilal Purohit. In February, I have written to the State Home Department and the Governor to act on the State government’s resolution. But the State government and TN Governor have not responded,” Nalini said in her petition.

“It is more than six months that the state government passed a resolution in favour of their release which has not been implemented till date,” she noted in her plea.

Nalini, her husband Murugan, Perarivalan, Sandhan, Robert Payas, Ravichandran and Jayakumar are the seven life-term convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case. They have been in prison for nearly 28 years.

It may be noted that on April 15, Nalini had moved a petition seeking to appear as party in person asking for six months parole for attending her daughter Haritha’s marriage, who lives with her grandparents in London.

A division bench comprising Justice M Sathyanarayanan and Justice M Nirmal Kumar adjourned the plea to June 11. However, the bench gave her the liberty to move the vacation bench if she wanted an urgent hearing.