Nalini Sriharan’s remarks got here hours after she was launched after spending 31 years in jail.
New Delhi:
Nalini Sriharan, one of many six convicts in former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination case, mentioned that she felt sorry for the households of those that had been killed in that blast. “I’m very sorry for them. We have now spent so a few years interested by it, and we’re sorry,” Nalini Sriharan informed NDTV when requested about her message for the Gandhis and households of those that had been killed.
“They’ve misplaced their expensive ones. I hope they are going to come out of that tragedy as soon as for all, any time,” she added. Nalini Sriharan’s remarks got here hours after she was launched after spending 31 years in jail.
When requested if she planed to fulfill her daughter and settle within the UK Nalini Sriharan mentioned she would, alongside together with her husband.
The Supreme Courtroom yesterday ordered the discharge of Nalini and 5 others, who had been convicted within the killing of Rajiv Gandhi in 1991.
Rajiv Gandhi was killed by a suicide bomber whereas campaigning for an election in Tamil Nadu’s Sriperumbudur in Might 1991 by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a Sri Lankan group.
Rajiv Gandhi’s killing was seen as an act of retaliation after he despatched Indian peacekeepers to Sri Lanka in 1987, solely to withdraw them after dropping greater than 1,200 males in battle and going through allegations of human rights violations within the island nation.
Nalini Sriharan, requested about if she would meet the household of Rajiv Gandhi, mentioned “I do not suppose they are going to meet me. I feel the time has handed for them to see me.”
The Supreme Courtroom resolution to launch Nalini Sriharan drew sharp criticism from the Congress.
The choice, nonetheless, was welcomed by many in Tamil Nadu the place their incarceration has been an emotive subject given many imagine that the seven locals convicted had been a part of the plot with out understanding its extent.
The court docket mentioned its resolution was primarily based on the prisoners’ good behaviour and the discharge in Might of AG Perarivalan, one other particular person convicted within the case, saying that he was 19 years previous on the time of arrest and had been jailed for greater than 30 years, with 29 of these in solitary confinement.