Nalini Sriharan, undergoing life imprisonment in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, on Monday again moved the Madras high court seeking a direction to the Tamil Nadu government to consider her representation for premature release.
Nalini, confined in the Special Prison for women in Vellore, submitted that she has undergone imprisonment for over 24 years. She was first awarded death sentence, which was confirmed by the Supreme Court and subsequently the state government under Article 161 of the Constitution commuted her sentence to life on April 24 2000.
Stating that about 2,200 life convicts, who had served 10 years of sentence, had been released by Tamil Nadu, she said it had not considered her release on the ground that her case falls under a different section of Code of criminal procedure.
She submitted the government has framed a scheme of premature release of life convicts who had completed 20 years of imprisonment. A Government Order was also passed on Novemmer 10, 1994 even under which she was not considered for release, she said.