Nalini Leaves Jail after 31 years

New Delhi: A day after the Supreme Court ordered freeing of six remaining life-term convicts in the 1991 Rajiv Gandhi assassination case after 31 years in jail, five of them—Nalini Sriharan, her husband Murugan, and Santhan, Robert Payas and Jayakumar—were formally released from Tamil Nadu jails on Saturday evening. Convict RP Ravichandran was also due for release anytime. “It’s a new life for me with my husband and daughter,” she said after coming out. “I thank Tamil people for supporting me,” she said, but denied that she’d enter public life. She also
thanked the state and central governments. In May, the Supreme Court had used its extraordinary powers to free one of the seven

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