Mr. Shantan from Jaffna, who was found guilty of the assassination of former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and was later released, died yesterday (27) at the Rajiv Gandhi Hospital in India.
After 32 years, when he was going to visit his mother in Jaffna, he was hospitalized due to a sudden liver disease and he died while receiving treatment.
After taking into consideration an appeal submitted by Shantan’s mother to the Indian government, the Deputy High Commissioner of Sri Lanka in Chennai had also issued a foreign passport for Shantan to come to Sri Lanka from India.
The seven, including Nalini, Murugan and Shantan, who were sentenced to life in the former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, were released in November 2022.
Of the seven released, Murugan and Shantan were kept in the Trichy Special Camp, while the other five were allowed by the Indian government to visit their relatives.
