A prisoner who was one of several convicted over the assassination of India's former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi is to be released after 31 years under orders from the country's Supreme Court.
AG Perarivalan has been in jail for 31 years and was 19 years old when he was arrested in 1991. The court yesterday ordered his release in response to a plea by the Tamil Nadu state government.
The case has highlighted the "humiliations, insult and pain" faced by his mother who has fought for his release for decades.
Perarivalan was arrested for buying batteries for a bomb used to assassinate Gandhi in Tamil Nadu in 1991.
He was initially given the death penalty, but this sentence was later commuted to life.
Gandhi's assassination was widely seen as retaliation for his having sent Indian peacekeepers to Sri Lanka in 1987 when he was prime minister.
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