Chennai June 16 (IANS) Nalini Sriharan one of the convicts in the assassination case of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi has started a hunger strike in Vellore prison demanding that she be shifted to a jail here.
According to reports reaching here Nalini had sought to be shifted to a jail here so that she could oversee the work relating to her daughter Harithra s wedding.
Harithra is living in the UK and plans to visit Chennai for her wedding.
Nalini s application for parole was rejected by the prison authorities.
She began her hunger protest on Thursday. The jail officials were not available for comments.
Nalini was sentenced to death by a special court for her involvement in Gandhi s assassination at Sriperumbudur near Chennai on May 21 1991.
The sentence was commuted to life imprisonment after Sonia Gandhi the former Prime Minister s widow petitioned for clemency -- for the sake of Nalini s daughter.
Nalini an Indian had accompanied the Sri Lankan woman suicide bomber who blew up Rajiv Gandhi with concealed explosives.
Nalini who was a close friend of an LTTE operative known as Murugan another accused in the case later gave birth to the girl in prison.
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Nalini on hunger strike demanding shifting to Chennai jail
