VELLORE: Murugan, one of the three men facing execution in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, was allowed to meet his wife Nalini at Vellore prison on Saturday. The meeting lasted for 30 minutes at the women’s cell. The couple had been convicted for working on a plot to kill the former prime minister in 1991.Nalini was brought back to Vellore prison at her request to meet her husband. A year ago she was transfered to the prison in Puzhal near Chennai after she complained of harrassment by prison officials in Vellore. The three men have been in the news headlines after President Pratibha Patil rejected their mercy petition last month and their execution was set for September 9. But the Madras High Court postponed the execution by eight weeks on an appeal from the convicts.Nalini was also awarded the death penalty but her mercy plea was accepted and her sentence was commuted to life term in 2000. Her lawyer Pugazhendi also met her and Murugan separately at the prison. He said the couple’s daughter Harithra, a student in London, is likely to get a visa soon to meet them.
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