Gandhi's daughter Priyanka Vadra had said her family had pardoned Sriharan after a controversial secret meeting with her in March.
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by Our Correspondent in Chennai
(June 10, Chennai, Sri Lanka Guardian) The Madras High Court on Tuesday (June 10) will hear a petition seeking early release of Nalini Sriharan - one of the plotters in the killing of ex-premier Rajiv Gandhi.
She has spent the past 17 years at prison in Tamilnadu for sheltering the suicide bomber and several others who worked to kill him.
The petition points out that her behaviour during imprisonment has been good and she should be freed soon.
Gandhi's daughter Priyanka Vadra had said her family had pardoned Sriharan after a controversial secret meeting with her in March.
Sriharan's death sentence was reduced to life imprisonment on compassionate grounds.
She has a teenage-daughter and her husband Murugan, also a plotter in the case, is facing the death sentence.
A female suicide bomber sent by the Sri Lankan Tamil separatist group LTTE killed Gandhi at an election rally in Sriperumbadur in Tamilnadu state in 1991.
The assassination that shocked India is seen as a reaction after Indian troops briefly engaged the rebels in a chaotic battle to halt the separatist war in Sri Lanka.
- Sri Lanka Guardian
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