Days after she complained of being harassed by officials at the high-security Vellore prison, Rajiv Gandhi assassination case life convict Nalini has alleged that her life is under threat and claimed of being assaulted by jail authorities.
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The Tamil Nadu Government on Friday said calls were made to foreign countries, including Britain and Sri Lanka, from the cellphone recovered from Nalini, a life convict in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case.
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Nalini, who is serving a life term in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, on Tuesday ended her two-day long indefinite fast demanding her premature release, after Vellore jail officials assured that her plea would be considered as per law. Nalini broke her fast today morning after the prison officials prevailed upon her to do so and assured her that her plea would be considered as per law, according to jail authorities.
A senior prison official has given a clean chit in regard to conduct of Nalini, undergoing life imprisonment in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, to an Advisory Board which has to take a stand on premature release sought by her.
The advisory board formed to consider the plea of Nalini, a life convict in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, will submit its report to the Tamil Nadu government in a few days. The government constituted board, headed by District Collector C Rajendran, had met for over three hours on Wednesday and heard Nalini on her plea at the Vellore women's prison, where she is lodged. The meeting went on till late in the night.
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Nalini, who is serving a life sentence in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, aspires to be a social worker if she is released from Vellore Central Prison, where she has been lodged for the last 19 years. Nalini, who has sought premature release, does not want to go back to her family life and wants to work for women. Confined to a 6-feet by 10-foot cell in Vellore Central Prison, Nalini spends most of her time studying.
'They have started an institute, the Academy of Training and Sensitisation, for prison officials near Vellore.' 'This institute has been started by the Union home ministry and it is meant for all the four southern states.'
"It is beyond our understanding," was all the Bharatiya Janata Party could say in reaction to Priyanka Vadra's meeting with one of the conspirators in her father Rajiv Gandhi's assassination. Priyanka had earlier in the day confirmed her meeting with Nalini Sriharan, one of the conspirators in the former prime minister's assassination, last month in Vellore Central Jail. "The visit was incomprehensible and beyond our understanding," party spokesman Vijay Kumar Malhotra said.
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The students have now written to their university to involve more students in similar initiatives in the rural areas where they can use their knowledge for development. Agilent is planning to go bigger this year with more students from other institutions to be involved in the education for development drive.
Dr Suranjan Bhattacharji, director, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, which has served India with quality healthcare and education for over a century, says a doctor in a developing country like India has to see himself as an agent of change, not just as a medical practitioner.
Nalini, who is serving a life term in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case in the Vellore Central Jail, is pinning her hopes on an early release from prison, even as Congressmen paid floral tributes to the late leader on the 17th anniversary of his death on Wednesday.She has filed a petition in the high court to set her at liberty, after her hopes for an early release on account of her good conduct while being in prison, were dashed.
"It's completely personal, I don't want to say anything about it," she told CNN-IBN. But "I did visit Vellore to meet my father's assassins."
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Nalini, one of the convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, on Wednesday moved the Madras High Court, seeking her early release from prison. The petition was filed by one of Nalini's counsels and it is likely to be taken up for hearing today evening by Justice Jothimani. In her petition, she contended that since her death sentence was commuted to life, she had already served 17 years in prison. The life sentence was only up to 14 years.
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Her death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment by the Governor.
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