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Rajiv Gandhi case: Released Sri Lankan nationals to be deported

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By Express News Service

NEW DELHI: The 4 Sri Lankan nationals, convicted for his or her position within the assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, however launched by the Supreme Court lately, might be deported to their nation of origin, based on Union Home Ministry sources.

The ministry has issued directions to the Tamil Nadu authorities for the deportation of the 4 individuals, Murugan (alias Sriharan), Robert Payas, S Jayakumar and Santhan alias T Suthendraraja, quickly after they had been free of the prisons. All 4 are in a particular camp in Tiruchy.

“Some legal procedures will need to be completed before they are actually deported to Sri Lanka,” the sources stated, including that “while no time frame or specific date has been fixed for their deportation,” the method might be in accordance with the regulation.

The guidelines that element the deportation of convicts discharged from prisons movement from the Supreme Court order of February 28, 2012. While the Sri Lankan authorities has been knowledgeable, via the Ministry of External Affairs, concerning the impending deportations, the 4 Sri Lankans had been moved to the particular camp. 

As a number of the convicts reportedly want to go to nations aside from Sri Lanka, a senior State authorities official informed TNIE: “The TN government may not have any objection (to the country to which the released person wishes to go). But it depends on how the visas from other countries work out.”

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NEW DELHI: The 4 Sri Lankan nationals, convicted for his or her position within the assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, however launched by the Supreme Court lately, might be deported to their nation of origin, based on Union Home Ministry sources.

The ministry has issued directions to the Tamil Nadu authorities for the deportation of the 4 individuals, Murugan (alias Sriharan), Robert Payas, S Jayakumar and Santhan alias T Suthendraraja, quickly after they had been free of the prisons. All 4 are in a particular camp in Tiruchy.

“Some legal procedures will need to be completed before they are actually deported to Sri Lanka,” the sources stated, including that “while no time frame or specific date has been fixed for their deportation,” the method might be in accordance with the regulation.

The guidelines that element the deportation of convicts discharged from prisons movement from the Supreme Court order of February 28, 2012. While the Sri Lankan authorities has been knowledgeable, via the Ministry of External Affairs, concerning the impending deportations, the 4 Sri Lankans had been moved to the particular camp. 

As a number of the convicts reportedly want to go to nations aside from Sri Lanka, a senior State authorities official informed TNIE: “The TN government may not have any objection (to the country to which the released person wishes to go). But it depends on how the visas from other countries work out.”

READ HERE | Request TN govt’s assist to ship my husband to the UK: Nalini Sriharan