New Delhi:With a hope to see her son, convicted in Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, free, septuagenarian Arputham Ammal called upon Home Minister Amit Shah to seek his urgent intervention in the matter.
Ammal was accompanied by Tamil Nadu lawmaker D Ravikumar and Thol Thirumavalavan for her meeting with Shah in New Delhi this week.
Speaking exclusively with ETV Bharat, Ravikumar said, "With folded hands, Ammal pleaded to Hon'ble Home Minister that her son has been languishing in jail for last 29 years for no reason."
Ammal sought the release of her son AG Perarivalan alias Arivu and six others undergoing life imprisonment in the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi in 1991. She also submitted a petition to the Home Minister.
Kin of Rajiv Gandhi assassination convict pleaded Amit Shah for release Article 161 of the Constitution empowers the Governor of a state to remit the sentence of a convict.
Referring to the affidavit filed by former CBI officer V Thiagarajan in the Supreme Court in 2017, Ravikumar said that the premier investigating agency had omitted a part of the confessional statement of Arivu, who was 19 years old then.
"The officer told that it was his fault to put Arivu's name in the case," said Ravikumar.
Former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated on 21 May 1991, by a woman LTTE suicide bomber in Chennai during an election rally.
The Tamil Nadu Cabinet had recommended to Governor Banwarilal Purohit to release all the six convicts whose death sentence was commuted to life in line with the Supreme Court verdict.
"The file is now pending with the Governor for the last 11 months," Ravikumar added.
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