National Desk:
Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated in a suicide attack in Tamil Nadu during an election rally on 21 May 1991. After seven years of legal proceedings, on January 28, 1998, the TADA court had sentenced all the 26 accused to death. Out of which 19 convicts were released by the Supreme Court, while the death sentence of 7 convicts was upheld. Later it was changed to life imprisonment.
The death sentences of three of the seven convicts were commuted to life imprisonment, while the death sentences of Murugan, Santhan, Nalini and AG Perarivalan were upheld. Nalini was 2 months pregnant at the time of her arrest. Nalini wrote the book in jail, in which she mentioned that Sonia Gandhi had said that "How can I blame that child for his crime, he has not even come into this world yet, so I I forgive him." Sonia Gandhi had requested the court for clemency for Nalini. Finally, in the year 2000, Nalini's death sentence was also waived. Eventually, the death sentence of the remaining three convicts was also commuted to life imprisonment.
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