One of the prime culprits behind the assassin of the ex-prime minister of India Rajiv Gandhi, Perarivalan has been released by the supreme court. During the time of killing Rajiv Gandhi, Perarivalan was just 19 years of age in 1991.
Perarivalan was accused of buying the two 9-volt batteries used in the bomb to assassinate the former prime minister. He was sentenced to death by a TADA court in 1998. The Supreme Court upheld the sentence the next year but commuted it to life imprisonment in 2014. The top court had granted him bail in March this year.
In Perarivalan’s autobiography, An Appeal from the Death Row, he claimed how he was implicated in the conspiracy by taking a confession under duress that he bought a battery to make the bomb.
