AIADMK general secretary, Edappadi K. Palaniswami has held the DMK regime responsible for the death of Santhan, alias T. Suthenthirarajah, a released convict in the former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, early this week at the Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital in Chennai.
Santhan was one of six convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, who had served more than three decades in prison, and was released by the Supreme Court in November 2022.
In a statement issued on March 2, 2024, Mr Palaniswami said that as the State government did not “obtain the necessary clearances” from the Union government, Santhan, a Sri Lankan Tamil, could not be with his family in the neighbouring country during his last days. He demanded that the government taken responsibility for the death of the released convict.
