Three ex-convicts within the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case returned to Sri Lanka on Wednesday, practically two years after being freed by the Supreme Courtroom.
The Sri Lankan residents, V Murugan alias Srikaran, S Jeyakumar and B Robert Payas, had earlier served a three-decade jail time period in reference to the killing of the previous Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. The three left by a Sri Lankan provider for Colombo on Wednesday, officers stated.
The trio had been met by the Colombo Police crime investigation division to file their statements as they returned to their homeland from Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
The Tamil Nadu authorities final month knowledgeable the Madras Excessive Courtroom that the Sri Lankan Excessive Fee right here had granted journey paperwork to Murugan and the remainder and so they may return house as soon as a deportation order is issued by the Foreigners Regional Registration Workplace (FRRO), in line with a report in PTI.
V Murugan had earlier moved the courtroom looking for a course to authorities involved to supply him a photograph ID. The three individuals had been among the many seven convicts within the case freed by the Supreme Courtroom in November 2022.
Publish their launch, they had been lodged in a particular camp in Tiruchirappalli. They had been introduced in Chennai on Tuesday and left for Colombo on Wednesday.
Earlier, Murugan’s spouse Nalini had additionally moved the courtroom, looking for a course to the authorities to allow her husband to seem earlier than the Sri Lankan Excessive Fee in Chennai with an escort to get an ‘all nation passport’. The couple meant to affix their daughter who’s now residing within the UK.
One other Sri Lankan nationwide Santhan, who was convicted within the case, died not too long ago. The others who had been convicted and freed within the case are Perarivalan, Ravichandran and Nalini, all Indians.
Rajiv Gandhi was killed by a suicide bomber of the banned LTTE close by Sriperumbudur on Could 21, 1991. Seven individuals had been convicted within the case with 4 of them, together with Nalini, given capital punishment. Nonetheless, it was later commuted to life.
All seven had served over 30 years in jail earlier than the Supreme Courtroom ordered their untimely launch in November 2022.