3 Rajiv Gandhi Case Ex-Convicts Return To Sri Lanka

COLOMBO (News 1st); Murugan, Jayakumar, and Robert Payas, the three individuals who were convicted in connection with the assassination of former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, returned to Sri Lanka today after a period of 35 years.

The trio were sentenced to death India, and were later released by the court.

Three ex-convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, all of them Sri Lankans, returned to their home country on Wednesday (3).

Post their release, they were lodged in a special camp in Tiruchirappalli.

Tamil Nadu media reported that the group left for Sri Lanka on temorary visa.

P Pugalenthi, lawyer of released Rajiv Gandhi assassination convicts arrived in Sri Lanka along with Murugan, Jayakumar, and Robert Payas.

A. G. Perarivalan, Santhan, Murugan, Nalini, Robert Payas, Jayakumar, and Ravichandran, were detained for the past thirty years in relation to the assassination of former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.

They were release by the Indian Supreme Court in 2022.

On May 21, 1991, the late Prime Minister of India, Rajiv Gandhi, was killed in a suicide bomb attack in Tamil Nadu.