Santhan alias Suthenthiraraja, one of the seven life convicts granted premature release in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, has requested the Sri Lankan President to help him return to the island nation and live there with his aged mother.
In a petition sent to the Presidential Secretariat in Colombo, Santhan said he was now lodged in the Tiruchi special camp where foreign nationals facing criminal charges or having no valid documents are kept. Since he could not meet his mother during his 32 years of incarceration, he appealed to the president to allow him to visit Sri Lanka and take care of his mother. Petitions for renewal of his national identity card and passport were pending with the High Commission, he said.
