Nalini, accused in Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, granted parole to attend father's funeral

Nalini Sriharan, undergoing life imprisonment in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, has been granted 12-hour parole for Wednesday to attend her father's funeral. 

Nalini's father Sankaranarayan died on Monday and cremation is likely to take place in Chennai on Wednesday, the sources said. Nalini currently in the central prison in Vellore, had earlier sought parole to attend the funeral.

Arrested about a month after the assassination which shook the country on May 21, 1991, Nalini was sentenced to death by hanging after being convicted on 16 counts of murder.

However, her sentence was later commuted to life imprisonment at the intervention of Congress President Sonia Gandhi who pleaded for clemency to her.