Nalini Sriharan ( Rajiv Gandhi Assassination Convict) Family Life and Biography

Nalini Sriharan and other convicted assassins of Rajiv Gandhi, including Nalini Sriharan, were released from four different prisons on November 12 after the Supreme Courts approved their early release. Murugan Sriharan, a Sri Lankan national, was released from Vellore Central jail while his wife Nalini Sriharan was liberated from Vellore Women's Prison. Additionally, another Santhan was liberated from the central prison. Read All the Details about her in this Article.

Nalini Sriharan Wiki/ Biography

Nalini was born in 1967 in Ambalavanapuram, Tamil Nadu, Tirunelveli.She earned a bachelor's degree in English literature from Ethiraj College in Chennai, after which she began working for a private corporation in Chennai. She was arrested on 14 June 1991 for her claimed role in the killing of Rajiv Gandhi.

Nalini Sriharan Parents 

Nalini Sriharan was Born to her Parents P Sankara Narayanan and Padmavathi Ammal. Her Mother's name is Padmavathi Ammal and Her father's name is Parents P Sankara. She has a Brother Name P. S. Bhagyanathan and a Sister name Kalyani.

Nalini Sriharan Husband and Daughter

Nalini Sriharan is a Married Woman. Her husband's name is Sriharan alias Murugan and the Couple has a Daughter name Harithra. Nalini was two months pregnant when authorities detained and imprisoned her. On January 21, 1992, Nalini gave birth to a girl previously named Megara.  Harithra stayed in prison with her mother until she was six years old. Harithra's paternal grandmother then took her to Sri Lanka, and then to London, where she now works as a physician as the report.

Nalini Sriharan Ethnicity, Nationality

Nalini Sriharan Nalini Sriharan Ethnicity and Nationality Belongs to India

Rajiv Gandhi Assassination and Facts

Nalini was the only member of the five-person assassination squad to survive the explosion that killed Rajiv Gandhi. On 21 May 1991, Nalini accompanied the assassin's team, including the key conspirator Sivarasan, to Rajiv Gandhi's political rally in Sriperumbudur, Tamil Nadu.

Special Investigation Team investigations revealed that Nalini provided shelter to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) operatives who carried out the assassination. During the planning phase, they stayed with her and her husband.

After several days on the run, Nalini and her husband Murugan were apprehended at the Saidapet bus station in Chennai on 14 June 1991. (Madras). She was found guilty of the offenses she was charged with under Section 120B (participation in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination plot) read with Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code (murder). As a result, the TADA Court sentenced her and 25 others to death for their participation in the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi.

Several human rights organizations criticized the court's closed-door proceedings. Sonia Gandhi, the widow of Rajiv Gandhi, also petitioned the Supreme Court of India for clemency for Nalini because she did not want Nalini's daughter to remain an orphan. The Tamil Nadu governor modified Nalini's death sentence to life imprisonment on April 24, 2000. ( Source Indian Express, India news, opinion and Other News Websites)