NE LEGAL BUREAU
CHENNAI, JUNE 22
The Madras High Court has ordered to issue notice to the Tamil Nadu prison authorities on a plea by Rajiv Gandhi assassination life convict Nalini Sriharan’s mother alleging that her daughter was not allowed to meet her husband Murugan for the past 3 months ”in violation” of prison rules here on Monday.
Admitting the petition by S Padma, a division bench of Justices MM Sundresh and D Krishnakumar directed the state prison officials to file their response.
In her petition, Nalini’s mother claimed though the prison manual allowed such meeting once in a fortnight, the authorities did not permit her daughter to meet her husband in the last three months. She submitted that her son-in-law Murugan has resorted to “hunger strike” since June 1 over the issue and hence his life was in ”danger”.
The petitioner wanted the court to direct the prison authorities to permit Nailni to meet her husband Murugan regularly as per the rules. Another plea moved by Padma seeking direction to the authorities to permit Nalini and Murugan to make video calls to her mother-in-law in Sri Lanka and sister-in-law in London is pending before the high court.
